Vadnagar, 26 April 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated Himalya international’s food processing plant at Vadnagar.

As per the announcement made on this occasion, this facility in Vadnagar – Sultanpur is the largest chilled & Frozen food Project of India.

-Rs 160 crore plant is on 21 hectares of land.

-The plant has facility for growing mushrooms, processing potatoes and other vegetables and processing of milk to produce mozzarella cheese sticks, ‘paneer’ and frozen yoghurt.

-The installed capacity of the mushroom division was 60,000 tonnes of compost per annum which would produce 12,000 tonnes of mushrooms per annum with a yield of 20 percent at 100 percent operating capacity.

-The plant will also produce 6,000 tonnes of mozzarella cheese, 9,000 tonnes of yoghurt, 27,000 tonnes of appetizers and 27,000 tonnes of french fries per annum.

-The plant has a storage facility for 2,000 tonnes of frozen products.

-The plant would provide direct employment to 1,500 people and indirect employment to around 5,000 residents of the area.

-The company has set up an export target of around Rs.600 crore annually from international market and has orders from the US, Singapore, Dubai and Malayasia.

-The company would launch its products in all major cities of India given the growing demand for them.