Food and Consumer Affairs

The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries is implementing the Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS) to create self-employment opportunities in the dairy sector by providing back-end capital subsidies for bankable projects in areas such as milk production, procurement, preservation, transportation, processing, and marketing. The National Bank for Agriculture and ...

Recently, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs accorded its approval for the supply of fortified rice across government schemes. Let’s have an in-depth understanding of the entire step: What is fortified rice? Rice fortification is a process of adding micronutrients keeping in mind dietary requirements to regular rice. Generally, the ...

Jammu and Kashmir government launched the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Food Entitlement Scheme (MMSFES) to supplement the National Food Security Act in the state.  Objective To address the grievance of general public about decrease in their scale of ration after the implementation of National Food Security Act in the state. To ...

The Scheme is initiated by State Mission on Food Processing to provide Cold Chain facilities and Food Preservation to Non Horticultural Products. The Scheme will help farmers to sell their product from farm land to suppliers. The Scheme will also help to link groups of producers to the processors and ...

In order to provide whole wheat fortified atta (WWFA) (whole wheat atta fortified with iron & folic acid) at subsidized rate to the consumers in the State, the State Government has decided to launch a scheme called “Scheme for distribution of whole wheat fortified atta”. Under this scheme, the State ...

राज्य में खाद्य प्रसंस्करण उद्योगों की स्थापना के लिए  सहायक और अनुकूल माहौल बनाने के लिए उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने खाद्य प्रसंस्करण उद्योग नीति -2012 का शुभारंभ किया। इस नीति का उद्देश्य मूल्य संवर्धन को बढ़ावा देकर किसानों को उनके उत्पादों के लिए निष्पक्ष और आर्थिक रूप से पुरस्कृत मूल्य ...

News Financial assistance upto Rs. 50.00 Crore is provided for setting up Mega Food Parks for creation of modern infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from farm to consumer. A Mega Food Park is set up in an area of a minimum of 50 acres. Common facilities ...

News The Consumer Affairs Ministry has moved a Cabinet note for making amendments to the Consumers Protection Act and the Bureau of Indian Standards Act. The amendments, among other things, seek to create a Consumer Protection Authority on the lines of the US and European countries for fast-tracking redressal of ...