Fourth Spice Park in India
inaugurated in Guna today
To boost Spice Exports from
India
March
16, 2013, Guna: Fourth Spice Park inaugurated in Guna, Madhya Pradesh today by
the Hon’ble Union Minister of State, Ministry of Power, Shri Jyotiraditya
Scindia. Spice Board of India has taken steps to establish Spices Parks at
seven locations in the country to provide scientific infrastructure facilities
in order to empower the growers of spices and ensure better price realization. Three
of such parks are already functioning in Chhindwara, MP; Puttady, Kerela and
Kota, Rajasthan.
The projects on Spices Park are primarily intended to benefit
the growing community through quality improvement, grading, packing,
warehousing, etc for value addition which would lead to better price
realization of their produce. The exporters can also set up their unit in the
Parks for processing spices under the terms and conditions of the Board.
The centers where Spices Parks proposed are - Chhindwara [Madhya
Pradesh], Puttady [Kerala], Guntur [Andhra Pradesh], Sivaganga [Tamil Nadu], Jodhpur
[Rajasthan], Mehsana [Gujarat], Kota [Rajastan] and Guna [Madhya Pradesh].
A Spices Park can be defined as an industrial park for
processing and value addition of Spices and spice products which offers the
processing facilities at par with the international standards. The Regional
crop specific Spices Park is a well-conceived approach to have an integrated
operation for cultivation, post harvesting, processing for value addition,
packaging, storage and exports of spices and spice products by meeting the
quality specifications of the consuming countries.
The
basic objective of the concept is to provide common infrastructure facilities
for both post harvest and processing operations of spices and spice products,
which also aims at backward integration by providing rural employment. All the
Spices Park will have processing facilities at par with international standards
in which the produces could undergo cleaning, grading, sorting, grinding,
packing, warehousing etc. Apart from the above facilities, the Board will
develop the common infrastructure facilities like Roads, Water supply system,
Power stations, Fire fighting & Control systems, Weighing bridges, effluent
Treatment Plants, Quality Lab for checking basic parameters, Bank & Post
office counters, Restaurant, Business centers, Guest house etc.
Establishment of Spices Park in the country is a major initiative of the
Government as part of its commitment that any growth in the country should be
more of agriculture-specific and pro-farmers. The Spice Park will ensure a
better pricing for the produce by shortening the channels in the supply chain
system currently followed locally. The facilities available in the Spice Park
can be utilized by the farming community for primary processing for improving
the quality of their product and thereby they can directly sell to the
exporters. Spices Park will help render educative services to the
farming/trading community. It provides training programmes on Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP), post harvest operations
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