Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar along with Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the Indus Best Mega Food Park on 3 June 2021.
The mega food park will ensure value addition, longer shelf life for farm produce, better price realisation for farmers, excellent storage facility and provide an alternate market for farmers in the region.
The park will also provide direct and indirect employment to about 5,000 persons and benefit about 25,000 farmers in the CPC and PPC catchment areas.
Indus Best Mega Food Park has been set up in 63.8 acre of land at a project cost of Rs 145.5 crore.
The facilities created by the implementing agency at Central Processing Centre (CPC) of this Mega Food Park include cold storage of 3,745 tonne, pack house of 10 tonne per hour, dry warehouse of 12,000 tonne, boiler of eight tonne, aseptic pulping and packaging line of six tonne per hour for mango and 12 tonne for tomato, IQF and deep freeze of two tonne per hour and 1,500 tonne, food testing lab besides state-of-the-art enabling infrastructure.
The park also has a common administrative building for office and other uses by entrepreneurs and three primary processing centres at Raipur, Bilaspur and Durg districts with facilities for primary processing and storage near farms in the catchment area to benefit farmers.