Chandigarh, June 06: To promote agro-based and food processing industrial units in the state, Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation has sanctioned term loans to the tune of Rs 50 crore under the Industrial Development Bank of India Refinance Scheme. The Corporation is in the process of setting up four food parks in the state with the assistance of Union Ministry of Food Processing to encourage agriculture diversification and crop pattern, a HSIDC spokesman said.

The first such park is coming up at Saha in Ambala district for which 70 acres of land had been earmarked, he said adding the second such park would be set up at Rai in Sonepat district.
The Container Corporation of India (Concor) is setting up a cold chain project at Rai in order to provide logistic services like controlled conditions between the production centres, cold stores and retail outlets of the produce of Food Park, he added. Bureau Report