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Objectives & Strategy Sl. Objective Strategy i. To encourage & enable local entrepreneurs to set up Food Processing enterprises. To create awareness and organise food processing specific entrepreneurship development programmes at ITIs / Polytechnics, IED, OUAT, NIT, Rourkela. To depute the identified potential food processing entrepreneurs for higher learning to national level institutes like NIFTEM, CFTRI, IICPT and for industrial exposure to successful clusters / enterprises. ii. To increase the flow of private sector investments across the value chain from farm gate to market. To organize Road shows / Investors' Meets at strategic locations and participate in Fairs / Summits in the country & overseas. iii. To provide enabling infrastructure by promoting establishment of Food Processing Parks and common facilities in terms of warehouses, cold storages, laboratories, packaging. To set up Food Processing Parks at Deogarh, Bhadrak, Bargarh, Nawrangpur (Maize Park), Sambalpur, Ganjam, Bolangir, Kandhamal and Kalahandi. To facilitate & monitor establishment of Mega Food Parks (under development) at Deras (Khordha) by IDCO & Rayagada by MITS. To facilitate development of common infrastructure near the existing food processing clusters. 3 iv. To encourage value addition, increase shelf-life & reduce wastage, thereby increasing employment and income to the local farmers and entrepreneurs. To provide fiscal & non-fiscal incentives to encourage value addition. To facilitate flow of credit from Banks / NABARD / FIs to the existing & upcoming Agro & Food Processing enterprises. To promote setting up of Cold Chains, Cold Storages & Primary Processing Centres. v. To support capacity building in terms of skilling of Human Resource required by the Food Processing Industry. To organize need based skill development programmes with the assistance from Odisha Skill Development Authority, Director, Employment & Director, Technical Education & Training. vi. To promote product / process innovation, research and development and encourage technology up-gradation. To provide fiscal incentives to the technical / professional institutions and existing entrepreneurs to promote product / process innovations and R&D. To facilitate assistance to the enterprises from the existing GoI schemes. To provide incentives to encourage technology up-gradation / modernization. vii. To enhance competitiveness of the local food processing industry for both domestic and international markets. To encourage the enterprises to obtain quality certification from accredited bodies at national & international level.