Set up food processing units in Telangana: CM to ITC

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday asked ITC to establish food processing units in coordination with the state government.

The government said food processing units should come up in big way in the state so that farmers can get support price for their produce and unadulterated and quality food products can be supplied to the people, he said.

ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri and other officials of the company met the chief minister here, an official press release said.

Sanjiv Puri disclosed that the construction of ITCs Rs 800-crore food processing plant at Manoharabad in Medak district was almost complete and the plant will go on stream in two or three months, it said.

The Chief Minister congratulated ITC for completing such a major food processing plant in record time, the release said.

Observing that his government aims to launch food processing units on a large-scale to enable the farmers or growers to get suitable price, Rao said that major players like the ITC should come forward in the endeavour.

The services of four-and-a-half lakh women self-help groups in the state should be utilised in procuring raw material and others for the establishment of food processing units all over the state, he added.