**Executive Summary**
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, organized a two-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Scheduled for January 19-20, 2026, the event aimed to strengthen India's food processing ecosystem through policy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and stakeholder collaboration. The Shivir served as a platform for developing action-oriented strategies to enhance the sector.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Purpose:**
* Strengthening India's food processing ecosystem.
* Deliberations on action-oriented strategies to enhance processing capacity.
* Improve ease of doing business.
* Strengthen infrastructure and promote entrepreneurship.
* Promote investment in food processing sector.
* **Focus Areas & Goals:**
* Building a modern, competitive, and inclusive food processing sector.
* Enhancing farmer incomes.
* Reducing post-harvest losses.
* Promoting value addition.
* Generating employment, especially for youth and women.
* Strengthening India's agri-value chains.
* Expanding export potential.
* Supporting sustainable growth aligned with national priorities.
* **Inaugural Session Highlights:**
* Release of key publications highlighting technology-led transformation in food processing.
* Showcasing success stories of start-up grant challenge winners.
* Featuring success stories of NIFTEM-supported entrepreneurs.
* Underlining the Ministry's push towards innovation and enterprise-led growth.
**Impact Analysis**
**Food Processing Industries/Stakeholders**
* **Impact:** Beneficiaries of strengthened policies, innovation, and investment. Aims to enhance growth potential and global competitiveness.
* **Action Required:** Participate in collaborative efforts to shape the future of the industry and leverage the new initiatives for growth.
**Farmers**
* **Impact:** Expected to benefit from enhanced incomes, reduced post-harvest losses, and increased value addition in the food processing sector.
* **Action Required:** Engage with the MoFPI initiatives to capitalize on value addition and market access.
**Youth and Women**
* **Impact:** Opportunity to access increased employment opportunities within the food processing sector.
* **Action Required:** Acquire necessary skills and participate in programs that support entry into the food processing industry.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI): The central ministry responsible for India's food processing sector and the organizer of the Chintan Shivir.
Chintan Shivir: A two-day event held at Udaipur aimed at strengthening India's food processing ecosystem through policy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and stakeholder collaboration.
Udaipur: The location of the Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan.
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI),
Chintan Shivir held at Udaipur to Accelerate
India’s Food Processing Growth
प्रव तथ: 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’s food processing
ecosystem through policy, innovation, entrepreneurship and stakeholder collaboration.
Addressing the inaugural session, the Hon’ble Minister for Food Processing Industries Shri Chirag
Paswan underlined the Government’s 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’s agri-value chains, expanding export potential,
and supporting sustainable growth aligned with national priorities.
The inaugural session featured participation of senior leadership from the Ministry including Shri Abhinav
Joshi, Secretary, MoFPI. Smt. Nandita Gopal, Special Secretary, MoFPI and Shri Devesh Deval, Joint
Secretary, MoFPI with other key dignitaries from ministry and industry.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’s push towards
innovation and enterprise-led growth.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.****
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