New Delhi: The Organic Food festival would provide an opportunity to women entrepreneurs for capacity building and economic empowerment, said Food Processing Industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal. Inaugurating the 3-day long festival in New Delhi today with Smriti Zubin Irani, minister for Women and Child Development and Textiles, Badal highlighted the need for providing such platforms on regular basis for financial inclusion and empowerment of women and said that the government is planning to hold organic food festivals more frequently and in different parts of the country depending on unique organic products of particular region. The festival for women entrepreneurs is as an outcome of the MoU (which aims at building capacities of women entrepreneurs) signed between the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) and Ministry of Women and Child Development (M/o WCD). Rameshwar Teli, MoS for Food Processing Industries and Debasree Chaudhuri, MoS for Woman and Child Development were also present during the inauguration Badal said India has huge potential for organic produce and market. She added that most of the hilly areas and tribal areas in India are naturally organic. The minister said that while other parts of world are making special efforts to turn towards organic production,… Read full this story
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