UP Govt.

Schemes for training personnel for food processing

1. 15 days short term preservation Training

2. Entrepreneurship Development Training Programme
3. Employment Generation through Dhaba/Fast Food/Restaurant Training Scheme
4. Quality control and Hygiene related awareness Training Programme
5. National Food Processing Mission

1. 15 DAYS SHORT TERM PRESERVATION TRAINING: -

 Fruits and vegetables arrive in market in large volume
 a very large portion (about 30 to 40%) gets decayed
 farmers do not get even the cost price of their produce
Short term fruit preservation program are being conducted at 77 community fruit preservation
centres in the state with an objective of preserving and making tasty preserved food items by
scientific methods. A total of 25,229 candidates were imparted training under this scheme during
2015-16.

Objective of the scheme:-

 To spread the importance of food processing among general public.
 To prevent decay of fruits and vegetables by simple techniques
 To help farmers get fair price of their produce by publicizing the knowledge of
food processing.
 To disseminate knowledge of fruit and vegetable processing subject at student’s
level
Applicability of the scheme: - Applicable to all districts of the state.
Eligibility: - Candidate should be literate
Selection procedure: - Selection will be made on first come-first serve basis.
Number of trainees: - Per program – 30.
Duration of training: - 15 days
Training fees: - Rs. 20.00 per candidate.
Application procedure: -
Interested individuals would apply on the given format (Annexure – 1) and submit it along with
relevant documents to the in-charge of district’s Government Community Fruit Preservation and
Training Center. Admission related advertisement will be uploaded on the departmental website
www.horticulture.up.in.
2. Entrepreneurship Development Training Program (S.C.P. Scheme):-
 Unemployed youths are to be given training in food processing
 Encouraged for setting-up industry under this program
Applicability: - Entrepreneurship development training program (general) – 31 district
Entrepreneurship development training program (S.C.P. scheme) – 17 districts
Entrepreneurship development training Entrepreneurship development training
program (general) program (S.C.P. scheme)
Lucknow, Lakhimpur, Raebareilly, Pilibhit, Sitapur, Badaun, Bulandshahar, Hapur,
Shahjahanpur, Meerut, Baghpat, Gautam Saharanpur, Mujaffarnagar, Banda,
Buddhnagar, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Allahabad, Kanpur Dehat, Auraiya,
Rampur, Amroha, Bijnore, Chitrakoot, Farrukhabad, Varanasi, Sonbhadra, Ballia,
Hamirpur, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Kanpur, Siddharthnagar, Manipuri, Aligarh.
Etawah, Kannauj, Bhadohi, Mau,
Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Basti, Faizabad,
Sultanpur, Gonda, Firozabad, Mathura,
Hathras.

Eligibility under the scheme: -

The trainee must be of minimum of 18 years of age and have minimum educational
qualification of high school pass.
Number of trainees: -
30 trainees per program.
Duration of training: -
100 days (3 hours per day).
Training fees: -
Training fees of Rs 300.00 will be charged from each selected trainee.
Selection procedure: -
After submission of applications, trainees will be selected on merit on the basis of
total marks secured in high school examination.
Periodical progress:
A total of 46 programs were conducted during 2015-16 under this scheme and 1380
trainees were imparted training.
3. Employment generation through Dhaba/ Fast food/ Restaurant training
scheme:-
With this type of training, interested people can learn to prepare clean and quality
food or they may start a dhaba fast food restaurant with little investment. This way
people can generate income and earn a livelihood.
Area of the scheme:
49 selected districts of the state.
Selection procedure:
Selection will be made on first come-first serve basis after listing of application forms.
Number of trainees:
Per program – 30
Duration of training:
14 days (3 hours daily)
Training fees:
Free
Periodical progress:
A total of 50 programs were conducted during 2015-16 under this scheme and 1500
candidates were imparted training.
4. Quality control and Hygiene related awareness training plan:-
This scheme is to bring Good Hygiene Practices (G.H.P.), Good Manufacturing
Practices (G.M.P.), Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (H.A.C.C.P.) and
awareness about hygiene, sanitation and cleanliness among skilled and un-skilled
people who are working in manufacturing of food products and in dhaba,
restaurant and food processing unit.
Area of the scheme:
All districts of the state.
Eligibility criteria:
All men and women will be eligible.
Selection Process:
Concerned Principal/Food Processing Officer/Fruit Preservation Officer would ensure
participation of 50 trainees by publicizing the program through popular
newspapers/banner/poster etc.
Duration of training:
Two days (5 hours daily)
Training fees:
Free
Periodical progress:
A total of 96 programs were conducted during 2015-16 under this scheme and 4822
candidates were imparted training.
5. National Food Processing Mission:-
Objective of mission
 To promote work by establishment of food processing industries/
improvisation/ modernization.
 To increase the income of small and marginal farmers by using their raw
material at territory level.
 Capital merging, technical transfer, up gradation etc. to support the upturn in
food processing capacity.
 To develop those who are working as helping groups/ agricultural helping group
in food processing sector and to help them in achieving small or big
entrepreneurship.
 To develop the capacity and permanent employment through industrial training
and to lessen the difference between need and availability of skilled labors in
food processing sector.
 To improvise the level of food safety and hygiene according to Indian food
security standardization authority.
 To provide the facility of adaptation of standardization of H.A.C.C.P and I.S.O to
food processing units.
 To improvise the capacity of farm gate infrastructure, supply chain, storage and
processing.
 To help in making food processing sector in an organised form.
Area of project working
Complete Uttar Pradesh
Funding pattern
75% center and 25% state
 Project is D-linked through Ministry of Food processing Industries, India letter
no. M.F.P.I/N.M.F.P.I/ Budget 2012-17 Date 27.03.2015 to Date 01.04.2015.
 Under project S.L.E.C/S.L.E.C till financial year 2014-15 sub-committee had
approved only 51 projects and payment was made, Details are below