The Seafood Exporters’ Association of India, Odisha Region
and the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) will establish a
common preprocessing centre of international standard for the first time at
Balaramgadi in Baleswar district in Odisha.
The project, estimated to cost around Rs 6 crore, aims at
creating hygienic conditions of international standard for preprocessing works
like peeling for headless and other value-added products. The project has a
potential of employment of about 1,500 skilled rural women.
In addition to employment, the project would also help
shrimp farmers and fishermen of the district get better price of their
products.
Earlier, the exporters used to purchase materials and send
them to their factories for preprocessing. The project would also help them
increase the value of their products due to reduction of wastage and savings in
transportation cost.
The Bhumi Pujan ceremony of the project was conducted on
Thursday by MPEDA Chairperson Leena Nair and president of Seafood Exporters’
Association of India, Odisha Region G Mohanty in the presence of Director, EIC,
New Delhi, Dr SK Saxena, State Director of Fisheries P Krishna Mohan, MPEDA
Directors P Mohan Sundaram and N Ramesh and national vice-president of Seafood
Exporters’ Association Tara Ranjan Patnaik. Source: The Pioneer
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