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Pradeep Kumar

31/10/21 10:50 AM IST

First ‘One District, One Product’ (ODOP) brand

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The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, in association with the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), launched the first ‘One District, One Product’ ‘Dilli Bakes’ in the bakery products category of the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme

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  • The brand and the product have been exclusively developed under the ODOP concept for the bakery which is one of the ODOPs for Delhi.
  • This is the first product, i.e., whole wheat rusks launched under the Dilli Bakes brand and will be followed by launch of more products.
  • According to NAFED, the whole wheat rusks is a unique product as it is made with jaggery instead of sugar and contains butter instead of vanaspati. 
  • Under the PMFME Scheme, the Ministry of Food Processing industries had signed an MoU with NAFED for developing ten brands of the selected ODOPs under the branding & marketing component of the scheme.

About the PMFME Scheme

Launched under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme that aims to enhance the competitiveness of existing individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized segment of the food processing industry and to promote formalization of the sector and provide support to Farmer Producer Organizations, Self Help Groups, and Producers Cooperatives along their entire value chain. With an outlay of Rs. 10,000 crore over a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, the scheme envisions to directly assist the 2,00,000 micro food processing units for providing financial, technical, and business support for upgradation of existing micro food processing enterprises.

Source: PIB

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