CFTRI to help set up workable food processing units in villages
The Hindu
Online training programme to be held for the purpose
The Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) has drawn up a plan to support SHGs and rural entrepreneurs who are interested in taking up food processing, and establish enterprises in their villages.
Thanks to Sustainable Rural Food Processing Enterprises for Livelihood Generation, CSIR-CFTRI, under the CSIR Integrated Skill Initiative, aims to enable poor households in rural areas access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, thus improving their livelihoods.
In this regard, it is holding an online training programme on “Sustainable Rural Food Processing Enterprises for Livelihood generation” on November 18.
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