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SAMPADA is MoFPI’s 2017 umbrella for agro-marine processing and clusters. It funds infrastructure, not a universal farmer cash transfer. Objectives: cut wastage, raise processing and farmer income, create jobs and safe surplus. Components: Mega Food Parks, cold chain, unit expansion, clusters, linkages, labs, HR. About ₹6,000 crore was the original 2016–20 Union outlay.
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Introduction
Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana is the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries’ umbrella scheme for agro-marine processing and agro-processing clusters. SAMPADA stands for Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters; it was approved in 2017 by packing older food-processing schemes under one name.
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What the scheme is
- It is a central sector umbrella, not a direct cash transfer to every farmer; it finances infrastructure so that perishable produce is graded, stored, processed, and moved to market.
- The stated horizon at launch was 2016–20 with a Union outlay of about ₹6,000 crore, later extended and recast as PMKSY with continuing components.
Objectives
- Reduce harvest and post-harvest wastage of farm and marine produce, especially horticulture, milk, meat, and fish.
- Raise processing and value addition so that farmers capture a larger share of the consumer rupee and the Union’s doubling-farmers’-income agenda is served.
- Create modern processing capacity, cold-chain jobs, and exportable surplus that meets food-safety norms.
Provisions / components
- Mega Food Parks supply plug-and-play plots, common effluent and power, and a catchment of collection centres around a central processing unit.
- Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure covers pre-cooling, ripening, refrigerated transport, and storage.
- Creation/Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities (unit scheme), agro-processing clusters, and backward–forward linkages finance plants and raw-material chains.
- Food safety and quality labs plus human-resource and institution support (including NIFTEM-linked training) complete the umbrella.
Flow diagram
flowchart TD S[PM Kisan SAMPADA] --> O[Less wastage more farmer value] S --> P[Mega Food Parks] S --> C[Cold chain units clusters] S --> Q[Food safety labs skill] P --> O C --> O Q --> O
Conclusion
PM Kisan SAMPADA is an infrastructure umbrella for food processing, not a subsidy on the standing crop. Its objectives are less wastage, more farmer value, and safer processed food; its provisions are parks, cold chain, clusters, linkages, labs, and skill. Success is measured in operating parks and cold rooms, not in the acronym.
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