The Hamdard food park will include processing plants for honey and edible oils, along with manufacturing facilities for spices, and products like vermicelli and soya chunks.
The first-ever meeting of I2U2 leaders focused on the food security crisis and clean energy. India, Israel, the US, and the UAE have committed to advance low-carbon industries and promote green tech.
Vijayan, after his meeting with the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, said the gulf nation will set up three food parks in India, and one of them will come up in the southern state.
"Patanjali is coming in large scale in spices. We will purchase them from Rajasthan and other states and process," he said. He added that besides spices, the company will also make available cow milk.
Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said the government will soon come up with two new schemes for setting up of agro-processing clusters and creation of backward- forward linkages as part of its objective to double processing level from the current 10 per cent.
During his visit to Jaipur and Ajmer yesterday, Food Processing Secretary Avinash K Srivastava met Rajasthan Chief Secretary and briefed him about the Greentech Mega Food Park being set up at Rupangarh in Ajmer district.
"It is almost finalised now. You may see an announcement by Patanjali Ayurved for an investment of around Rs 1,600 crore in Noida for setting up a food processing plant around Diwali," a senior UP government official privy to the development said.
Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) earlier floated two global tenders (in May and July 2016), but failed to get any bidder.
Kishore Biyani's two daughters Ashni and Avni too have followed their father's footsteps and are genNext entrepreneurs of repute lording over the company's food and fashion verticals. They like the digital space and are burning the midnight oil observing consumer behaviour in this space.