The government aims to set up 50 new mega food parks across the country in the 12th Plan to minimise damage to huge amount of fruits and vegetables in the absence of wider network of food processing units. This was disclosed by Minister of State for Food Processing and Agriculture Harish Rawat in an interview to PTI Bhasa. He lamented that in the absence of wider network of food processing units, the country is facing damage to fruits and vegetables worth nearly 40,000 crore rupees every year. Mr. Rawat said, the mega food parks provide the necessary infrastructure to farmers to process food. The primary objective of the parks is to provide adequate and excellent infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from the farm to market. It includes creation of infrastructure near the farm, transportation, logistics and centralised processing centres.