Explanation:

Mega Food Parks Scheme (MFPS) was launched in 2008 whereby, the Government provides Financial Assistance up to Rs. 50 Crore to set up modern infrastructure facilities for food processing called Mega Food Parks. The key objectives of the scheme are to reduce wastage of perishables; raise processing of food items from 6% to 20% and raise India’s share in Food Processing Industry from 1.5% to 3%.A mega food park is basically a hub and spoke architecture comprising Collection Centres (CCs) and Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) as spokes linked to a Central Processing Centre as hub. Collection Centres CCs The CCs work as points of aggregation of the produce from individual farmers, farmer’s groups and Self Help Groups. They feed the raw material to the PPCs. The collection centres are managed by local entrepreneurs. They server as farm level aggregation points for adjoining areas within a radius of around 10 kilometres. It was expected that these CCs will emerge as centres of rural commerce and will spur economic activities in the area. Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) The PPCs work has primary handling centres which use the raw materials to be processed further in CPC. A PPC serves a number of CCs in proximity. Some PPCs have inhouse facilities such as pulping, juicing etc. They have facilities such as refrigerated vans, trucks etc. to transport material to CPC in shortest possible time. Central Processing Centre The Central Processing Centre is an industrial park in an area of around 50 acres and houses a number of processing units owned by different business houses. Here, the developed plots of land will be provided to the large and midsized units while Common Design Factory Sheds are provided to small scale units. The park will provide common facilities such as water, electricity and effluent treatment apart from specialized facilities like cold storage, ware housing, logistics and backward integration through the network of primary processing centres and collection centres.