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Annexure
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West Bengal Food Processing Industry Policy
Definition
1. Agro & Food Processing Industries will include the manufacturing activities in small, medium and large scale sectors as below:-
- Any processed product from fruits & vegetable including dehydrated fermented, canned, bottled, pouched, frozen fruits and vegetables, retort pouching and candy products;
- Synthetic beverages, ready-to-serve beverages, beer, vinegar, mustard sauce (Kasundi) etc;
- Spices powder, spices paste, spice oil & Oleoresin etc;
- Biscuit, Bread, Confectionary, ready to eat food, lozenges, chocolate, candy;
- Snack food, chanachur, bhujia, papad, bari, dhoka, noodles, cornflakes, muri, chira etc;
- Milk in pouch, paneer, yogurt, sweetmeat, ice-cream, ethnic food from milk and cereal;
- Canned, frozen & dehydrated fish and fish meat;
- Frozen & canned meat and meat products;
- Cereal processes and cereal based products including rice milling and rice product, dal milling and products, wheat milling and products, iodized salt, mineral water, edible oil extraction and refining soya bean processing including solvent extraction of essential oils or perfume bases from medicinal plants and flowers.
2. Units having the following mechanized facilities jointly or severally will also be considered as Agri & Food Processing Industries:
- Grading, sorting, washing & pre-cooling
- Ripening chamber and fumigation chamber
- Controlled atmosphere/modified atmosphere, packaging system & storage, cold storage for potato and refrigerated vehicle.
3. Multi-purpose cold storage units suitable for storing fruits, vegetable, flowers, fish, meat, milk and milk products.
4. Seed processing & packaging.
5. Centre for production of intermediate products and semi processed products for preservation of raw materials to supply the processing units.
6. Units engaged in production of fermented vegetables, dehydrated fruits & vegetables, pickling, nutrient pulp from fruit and vegetable, crude oil extraction from aromatic and medicinal plant.
7. Bee keeping, honey processing, mushroom cultivation and processing unit in artificially controlled atmosphere.
8. Setting up of Irradiation Centre and also irradiation of fruits/vegetables/fish / meat/ egg etc.
Note:
Any ambiguity/difference of opinion in interpretation of the above definition will be decided upon by the State Government in the Dept. of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture.
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