{"id":16351,"date":"2019-08-22T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2019-08-22T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:28:41","slug":"indias-largest-food-processing-industry-expo-foodpro-2019-to-kickstart-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Largest Food Processing Industry Expo \u201cFoodpro 2019\u201d to Kickstart in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cii.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7478\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cii.png\" alt=\"cii\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s Largest Food Processing Industry Expo \u201cFoodpro 2019\u201d\u00a0to Kickstart in Chennai<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CII to unveil Traditional Food Festival at Foodpro 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Over 300 domestic &amp; international exhibitors to showcase innovation in food processing, packaging &amp; technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Chennai, 22 August 2019<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing<strong>\u00a0Foodpro<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; India\u2019s biennial event on Food Processing, Packaging &amp; Food Technology &#8211; the 13<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0edition from 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0-25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2019 at Chennai Trade Centre, Nandambakkam, Chennai. The Government of Tamil Nadu is the Host State and Government of Kerala is the Partner State for Foodpro 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Thiru Banwarilal Purohit, Hon\u2019ble Governor of Tamil Nadu<\/strong>\u00a0has kindly consented to be the Chief Guest and inaugurate Foodpro 2019 on\u00a0 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0August 2019 at Chennai Trade Centre, Nandambakkam, Chennai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Shri. Rameswar Teli,<\/strong>\u00a0Hon\u2019ble Minister of State for Food Processing Industries, Government of India;\u00a0<strong>Mr R Doraikkannu<\/strong>, Hon\u2019ble Minister for Agriculture, Government of Tamil Nadu and\u00a0<strong>Mr R Kamaraj<\/strong>, Hon\u2019ble Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Tamil Nadu will be the Guest of Honours\u00a0 and address the Inaugural Session of Foodpro 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the presence of over 300 domestic and international exhibitors,\u00a0Foodpro 2019 will provide an important platform for all stakeholders to showcase the latest technology in Food Processing, Packaging, Cold Storage, Warehousing, Food &amp; Agriculture, Logistics and related products. Foodpro will have overseas participation from countries like Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, UAE &amp; USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Second edition of\u00a0<strong>ColdStoRe India\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>T-Food<\/strong>\u00a0would be held concurrently during the Foodpro 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ColdStoRe<\/strong>\u00a0will focus on the complete cold chain right from primary cold storage facility for food grains and fruits at Farm Level to high end cold storage for meat and food products including the important sector of Cold \/ Refrigerated Transportation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>T-Food<\/strong>, a traditional food festival will aim to bring the awareness about the traditional and local foods, especially millets.\u00a0 The show will present newer recipes of cooking traditional foods and will provide an opportunity to entrepreneurs to showcase the developments in processing of Traditional Food.\u00a0 The festival would also encourage farmers to grow more traditional crops to enable them to enhance profits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking about Foodpro 2019,<strong>\u00a0Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu,\u00a0<\/strong>Chairman, CII Southern Region said, \u201cMake in India initiative has immensely boosted the prospects for the Indian food processing and beverages industry. It has opened up a plethora of unique opportunities for entrepreneurs and businessmen, including foreign investors, to foray into the lucrative Indian food processing sector which is poised to witness more than double digit growth in the near future\u201d. He further added \u201cFoodpro has emerged as a strong networking platform for the people involved in the food processing industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mr Navas Meeran,\u00a0<\/strong>Chairman, Foodpro 2019 said, India is the second largest producer of food and agri-commodities in the world, there by playing a vital role in the global food processing Industry. India\u2019s USD 600 billion food processing industry is expected to grow three fold by 2020. The Food sector continues to rely heavily on modern food processing and storage technologies to overcome on the challenges and food wastage which is crucial for overall development of the Indian Food sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Display of products at the exhibition would include; Food Processing Technology &amp; Machinery; Retailing &amp; Vending Systems; Hotel &amp; Kitchen Equipment; Health \/ Wellness\u00a0 Products; Bakery Equipment, Machinery &amp; Technology;\u00a0 Ingredients, Fragrances &amp; Flavours; Packaging Machinery &amp; Technology; Refrigeration &amp; Cold Chain System;\u00a0 Processed &amp; Packaged Foods, Dairy &amp; Milk Processing Technology;\u00a0Refrigerated Transportation Solutions;\u00a0Ready to Eat Foods, Snack Foods Segments, Traditional Food Items including Millets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibitors are given opportunity to launch their product\/ services to their clients &amp; visitors through a dedicated \u201c<strong>Product Launches and Live Demonstrations\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>at the venue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coinciding with Foodpro 2019, CII will be organising Sectoral Conferences on Emerging Technologies in Food Processing Sector; Dairy Technologies and\u00a0 Traditional Foods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 300 senior personnel representing CEO&#8217;s, Industry leaders &amp; senior executives of leading manufacturers of processed &amp; packaged foods, technology providers, Post-harvest Technology, Processing equipment manufacturers, Producer companies, food safety solutions provider, Exporters, Retail chains and Government agencies would be participating\u00a0 at this conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Largest Food Processing Industry Expo \u201cFoodpro 2019\u201d\u00a0to Kickstart in Chennai \u00a0 CII to unveil Traditional Food Festival at Foodpro 2019 \u00a0 Over 300 domestic &amp; international exhibitors to showcase innovation in food processing, packaging &amp; technology Chennai, 22 August 2019:\u00a0 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organizing\u00a0Foodpro\u00a0&#8211; India\u2019s biennial event on Food Processing, Packaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-value-added-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16353,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}