, an SPV floated by Cremica Group, plans to develop a
food park at Singha village, Haroli taluka, in Una district of Himachal Pradesh.The food park will come up over 51 acre of land. Cremica Food Park Pvt. Ltd. will invest Rs 100 crore in the project. Around 45 per cent of the project cost will be funded by the central government, 40 per cent through bank loan, and the remaining 15 per cent from internal accruals. Cremica Food Park Pvt Ltd is an upcoming Mega Food Park in the Una district of Himachal Pradesh. The food park is established under the Government of India - Ministry of Food Processing Industries scheme of "Mega Food Park". As per the "Ministry of Food Processing Industries", the Scheme of Mega Food Park aims at providing a mechanism to link agricultural production to the market by bringing together farmers, processors and retailers so as to ensure maximizing value addition, minimizing wastages, increasing farmers income and creating employment opportunities particularly in rural sector. The Mega Food Park Scheme is based on Cluster approach and envisages a well-defined agri/ horticultural-processing zone containing state-of-the art processing facilities with support infrastructure and well-established supply chain. Envisaged to function as a decentralized structure, the Mega Food Park at Una will specifically include developing infrastructure to facilitate establishment of strong food processing units, backed by an efficient supply chain including collection centres, primary processing centres and cold chain infrastructure. Mega Food Park Scheme is the flagship program of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India. Mega Food Park Scheme proposes a demand driven/pre-marketed model with strong backward/forward linkages and sustainable supply chainThe primary objective of the proposed scheme is to facilitate establishment of integrated value chain, with processing at the core and supported by requisite forward and backward linkage. The scheme provides for creating infrastructure for farm level primary processing centre-cum- cold chain in identified clusters, processing of intermediate products, collection centre cum cold chains, centralized infrastructure to take care of processing activities, which require cutting edge technologies and testing facilities, besides the basic infrastructure for water supply, power, environmental protection systems, communication etc.The supply chain will establish on-Farm Primary Processing Centre cum cold chain facilities for aggregation of the produce at village level, which will be linked to the retail outlets/processing parks through appropriate produce aggregation facility and collection centre cum cold chain and Refer van transportation net works. The scheme is proposed to be entrepreneur driven to be implemented on a PPP basis.The scheme envisages a onetime capital grant of 50% of the project cost, subject to a maximum of Rs. 50 crores in general areas and 75% of the project cost, subject to a ceiling of? 50 crores in difficult and hilly areas i.e., North-East Region including Sikkim, J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and ITDP notified areas of the States. 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 Indias share in Food Processing Industry from 1.5% to 3%.