{"id":17418,"date":"2026-01-20T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:17:06","slug":"ministry-of-food-processing-industries-mofpi-chintan-shivir-held-at-udaipur-to-accelerate-indias-food-processing-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=17418","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Chintan Shivir held at Udaipur to Accelerate India\u2019s Food Processing Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Chintan Shivir held at Udaipur to Accelerate India\u2019s Food Processing Growth<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 19 JAN 2026 8:07PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, is organising a two-day Chintan Shivir at Marriott Hotel, Udaipur, Rajasthan, aimed at strengthening India\u2019s food processing ecosystem through policy, innovation, entrepreneurship and stakeholder collaboration.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Addressing the inaugural session, the Hon\u2019ble Minister for Food Processing Industries Shri Chirag Paswan underlined the Government\u2019s commitment to building a modern, competitive and inclusive food processing sector that enhances farmer incomes, reduces post-harvest losses, promotes value addition, and generates large-scale employment, especially for youth and women. The Minister emphasised that food processing will play a critical role in strengthening India\u2019s agri-value chains, expanding export potential, and supporting sustainable growth aligned with national priorities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image00150DS.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The inaugural session featured participation of senior leadership from the Ministry including Shri Avinash Joshi Secretary, MoFPI,<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Shri Asit Gopal, Special Secretary, MoFPI and Shri Devesh Deval, Joint Secretary, MoFPI with other key dignitaries from ministry and industry.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image0022Q5Q.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>As part of inaugural session of Shivir, MoFPI facilitated the release of key publications highlighting technology-led transformation in food processing and showcasing success stories of start-up grant challenge winners and NIFTEM-supported entrepreneurs, reflecting the Ministry\u2019s push towards innovation and enterprise-led growth.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image0037FHB.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Chintan Shivir serves as a platform for deliberations on action-oriented and concrete strategies to enhance processing capacity, improve ease of doing business, strengthen infrastructure and promote entrepreneurship and investment in food processing sector.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image0045YFS.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/image0057LP7.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Chintan Shivir held at Udaipur to Accelerate India\u2019s Food Processing Growth Posted On: 19 JAN 2026 8:07PM by PIB Delhi The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, is organising a two-day Chintan Shivir at Marriott Hotel, Udaipur, Rajasthan, aimed at strengthening India\u2019s food processing ecosystem through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17420,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions\/17420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}