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Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable Pvt Ltd today announced setting up a 25,000-tonne per year integrated food and vegetable (F&V) processing plant in Ranchi at an estimated expenditure of Rs 75.65 crore.
On completion, this would be Safal’s first plant in the eastern region and its second across the country, the company said in a release.
The first phase of the project that includes a freezing line is expected to be operational by December 2016 while the pulp and concentrate processing line will be operational a year later.
Mother Dairy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) currently operates one F&V processing plant at Bengaluru which has a capacity of 15,000-18,000 tonnes per year.
The Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Raghubar Das, laid the foundation stone for the proposed integrated plant for food and vegetable processing to be constructed in the Nagdi Block of Ranchi by the company.
“With huge production of fruits and vegetables, Jharkhand has immense potential for food processing. Through this state-of-the-art facility we will strive to explore better opportunities for almost 50,000 farmers and their produce,” S. Nagarajan, Managing Director, MDFVPL, said as per a release issued by the company.
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