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Reducing food waste top priority for India: Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal

-PTI

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is currently on a weeklong visit to the US to meet the agriculture industry and food processing companies in Chicago, Washington and New York City.

Washington:
India has made a huge priority to reduce massive food waste, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has told the American industry leaders seeking their investment and technology in this regard. India is one of the largest producers of food, as the largest producer of milk and second largest producer of fruit and vegetables in the world. This huge raw material base, paired with a growing 1.3 billion population, presents vast investment and partnership opportunities for the US, Badal said.

“However, India is currently only processing ten per cent of its food, resulting in enormous food waste,” said Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries at an industry round table organised by US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF).

Badal is currently on a weeklong visit to the US to meet the agriculture industry and food processing companies in Chicago, Washington and New York City.

During her visit, she hosted one on one meetings with industry executives from US companies including Pepsico, Amazon, The Hershey Company, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Kraft Heinz, and Honeywell, among others. “With a growing country and population, the Indian government has made it a huge priority to reduce this waste,” Badal said.

In the last three years, India has focused on reducing food waste through a war against food waste, she said.

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