NEW DELHI : Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday unveiled a ₹10,000-crore scheme to support local micro food enterprises to go global. “To implement the Prime Minister’s vision of ‘vocal for local’ with global outreach, a scheme will be launched to help 200,000 micro food enterprises," she said.
The move is aimed at exporting indigenous food items, such as fox nuts from Bihar, mango varieties of UP, saffron of Kashmir, and tapioca from Tamil Nadu to global markets.
Sitharaman said the scheme was in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for taking local products to the global markets.
The scheme will benefit 200,000 micro food enterprises to improve the quality of local products and build international brands. “This fund
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