‘FOOD PROCESSING UNIT TO COME UP IN LUCKNOW SOON’

SANJIV PURI Chairman, ITC

The ITC group is coming up with a food processing unit in Lucknow and a logistic hub in Ghaziabad. The company plans to invest ₹1000 crore in Uttar Pradesh in near future.

“The ITC has a deep and long relationship of over several decades with Uttar Pradesh. We have a factory in Saharanpur. The company has 19 packaging units in the state in association with local entrepreneurs,” said Sanjiv Puri, chairman, ITC. “The company has presence in agriculture, manufacturing and service sector in the state,” added Puri adding, in agri business the ITC had presence in 50 districts across the state. “The company has empowered 12 lakh farmers. Under the PM’s initiative to double farmer’s income, we have launched a program ‘Barah Mahena Haryali’ in Uttar Pradesh and contacted two lakh farmers,” said Puri. The project has helped double the income of 30,000 farmers and the remaining have reported increase in income from 30 percent to 70 percent, asserted Puri.

The ITC has also entered into plantation of guava and jamun in Uttar Pradesh. The company has also pledged to prepare packaged juice from pulp sourced from Indian farmers and not from fruit concentrate sourced from foreign countries. The ITC has also entered into a contract with Saharanpur administration for solid waste management of entire city.