By IANS
Bhopal : Madhya Pradesh provides many advantages for the country’s food processing industry, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan says.
“There is no match to the sharbati variety of wheat produced in the state and the basmati rice produced is not only getting popular but is exported,” Chouhan told a gathering of industrialists in Mumbai late Friday.
“As much as 65 percent of the country’s soyabean production is from the state. Madhya Pradesh also leads in pulses and wheat production. Hence, the food processing industry hold tremendous scope,” he said.
He was speaking at a meeting organised jointly by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Trade and Investment Facilitation Corp Ltd.
He also asked industrialists to participate in a Global Investors Summit at Indore in October and urged them to invest in the state’s infrastructure, tourism, IT, biotechnology and education sectors as well.