First organic food festival begins in New Delhi

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday inaugurated Organic Food Festival at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The Union Minister also urged the citizens in and around Delhi to visit the food festival.

New Delhi: The MoFPI (Ministry of Food Processing Industries) and the Ministry of Women and Child Development have inaugurated an organic food festival at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Friday.

The three-day-long festival was jointly inaugurated by Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Union Minister Smriti Irani.

While addressing a press conference here Badal said, "India has huge potential for organic produce and market. While other parts of the world are making special efforts to turn towards organic production, India has natural advantages which must be leveraged."

She further said that this organic festival can be of international scale in the near future.

Spread over an area of 6000 sqms of space, this is the first such event where more than 180 women entrepreneurs and self-help groups are participating from over 25 States and Union Territories.

Through the Organic Food Festival, engage with technology groups so that latest technology can be made available to women entrepreneurs, said Irani.

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  — Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) February 21, 2020

The WCD Minister further took to twitter and said, " I urge citizens in and around Delhi to visit this food festival which celebrates entrepreneurial prowess of 180 women from across the Nation."

The Organic Food Festival for Women Entrepreneurs is as an outcome of the MoU signed between the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and the Ministry of Women and Child Development.