This policy endeavors to make Gujarat, the destination of choice for investors and processors, both global and domestic.
Gujarat has vast untapped potential in agro industrial sector, which could be used advantageously to achieve multiple goals viz. increased income for farmers, rural industrialisation, rural employment, better quality products to consumers. This can be achieved by new investments in agro industries by national/ multinational companies. The broad objectives of agro industrial policy are enumerated as under:
- To create world class supply-chain infrastructure needed for agro industrial development.
- To increase total flow of investments both skills and capital, in agro industries to establish backward and forward linkages,
- To accelerate a close interface between research, extension mechanisms and industry and farmers in agri sector,
- To increase the value addition and reduce wastages, thereby increasing the income of farmers and delivering better quality products to consumers,
- To create rural employment and improve quality of life of rural people,
- To assist small-scale agro based units to remain competitive in global markets,
- To increase export of value added agri products.
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