- Asks Trudeau to jointly celebrate 550th Parkash Purab of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji jointly in league with SGPC
- Invites Canadian companies to invest in food processing sector in India
Kavita Pahwa | The Voice of Canada News
Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to facilitate start of Toronto – Amritsar Air Canada flights besides suggesting that the Canadian government jointly celebrate the 550 Parkash Purab of Guru Nanak Dev ji in league with the SGPC.
Mrs Badal made these suggestions to the Canadian PM on the sidelines of a Indian – Canada business session. The Canadian PM assured to look into both the suggestions.
Earlier the food processing minister invited Canadian companies to invest in the food processing sector in India, saying foreign direct investment (FDI) in this sector was on the rise and had unparalleled growth potential.
Addressing the India Canada business session here which was attended by visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as Canadian ministers and representatives of CII and FICCI, the food processing industry minister said India- Canada had registered a trade of eight billion dollars in 2016. She said this could rise exponentially due to increased FDI investment in the food sector in India. “The country received FDI worth 60 billion dollars in 2016-17 and even this is on the rise because of the vast uncapped potential of the food sector. India has a retail potential of 60 billion dollars out of which seventy percent is in the food sector alone”, she added.
Inviting Canadian companies to invest in the food sector, Mrs Badal said a number of steps had been taken to facilitate investors including start of a Food Regulatory Portal
which was a single interface for food businesses to cater to both domestic operations and food imports. She said another portal – Nivesh Bandhu facilitated investors to make informed investment decisions.
