Promote super foods: Minister

Chandigarh, June 22

Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today called for marketing super foods of India in the Western world due to their efficacy against Covid-19 even as she stressed the need to augment the share of Indian food in the ready to eat sections in global retail outlets.

The Union minister, who was chairing the Food Processing Exclusive Investment Forum of Invest India, said the world focus was on nutritional food and this was the right time to establish India’s footprint in the world food market. She said her ministry, on its part, had established a dedicated investment facilitation cell at Invest India for hand-holding both domestic and foreign investors for doing business in India.

She said the world was witnessing new challenges with the food processing sector playing a key role in ensuring that the lockdown was successful.

“All these issues have led to the opening of new opportunities which has made it possible for over 180 global investors, six state governments and the Central Government to be at the same place at the same time,” she said. — TNS