Food Hospitality Expo Guj Food India begins tomorrow

Ahmedabad
    
The first edition of Western India’s premier food and hospitality Expo, 3-day event Guj Food India, will kick start tomorrow at YMCA International centre in the city.

It will have an exhibition, a food festival and a conference on fortified food as part of it.

Around 40 exhibitors from all over India will be participating in the 3-days exhibition, with the presence of famous city chefs. Thousands of business and trade visitors are also expected to participate in the food fest. The conference is segmented into 3 sessions with dedicated topics to be discussed, that includes Malnutrition an Emergency – What it Costs the Nation, Partnerships for creating scalable, sustainable, and cost-effective tools to reduce malnutrition and Vision of a world without malnutrition.

The event to continue till November 1 will be covering each and every sector related to the food industry, with the presence of eminent chefs, CEO’s from food and hospitality sector along with demonstrations of food preparations.

Governor O P Kohli will be the Chief Guest at the Conference on Nutrition Challenges on day two as part of Guj Food India, wherein he will be addressing the audience on the nutritious element of fortified food products.

Addressing a press conference on the event eve today the chairman of the second day function on nutritional food and CMD of Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ltd, Mr. S K Nanda pressed for the need to adopt right food habits by the common folk. He also stressed the need to fortify the food items with micro nutrients to prevent many serious ailments.

He informed that Veena S Rao, Advisor Karnataka Nutrition Mission and Dr H G Koshia, Commissioner, Food and Drugs Control Authority of Gujarat would address the conference along with key people from industry such as Mr. Parag Desai, Executive Director, Wagh Bakri Tea Group, Dr. K C Raghu, CEO, Prestine Organics, Mr. Prabhod Halde, Head Regulattory, Marico Ltd.
 
‘ We have also specially invited Mr. Salil Kumar, Director, TINI – The India Nutrition Initiative, Dr. Subrata Kr Dutta, India Coordinator and Head, Food Fortification Initiative to speak on their vision of a world without malnutrition and Ceral-grain fortification to tackle micronutrients. The 3-day exhibition will showcase latest technology in food processing, Agri, Cold Storage & Warehousing, Packaging, Logistics, Hospitality,’ he said.

Sharing more on the exhibition Dr. Nanda said “India is world’s 2nd largest producer of food, so a vast opportunity lies in the sector in terms of investment and employment. This event is a platform to aware about the intricacies related to the food sector that is not focused only on good food only but the latest technology involved in developing and delivering them to the customers”.

On the occasion Mr Piruz Khambatta, chairman, CII National Food Processing Committee and CMD Rasna pvt ltd gave a detailed presentation about the aims and objectives of the event. He said that today Corporate Social Responsibility is not only giving money but initiatives by corporates to help the society at large which industry especially food companies can do with fortified energy rich food products so that society especially the masses would get quality food and the industry is duty bound to give such products also especially to meet the nutrition requirements of children and women in rural and semi urban areas.

– DeshGujarat