CII-Jubilant Bhartia Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence
■ Mission The CII-Jubilant Bhartia Food and
To improve the competitiveness
of India’s agriculture & food
processing sector, by catalyzing
innovation, building capacity and
establishing supply chain linkages
across the agriculture and food
chain, ensuring food security and
inclusive growth.
Recognizing the socio economic
importance of the agriculture
sector policy focus is today shifting
to enhanced income generation
for the farmers. Increasing
investments in agriculture, backed
by support from private sector
can provide the right impetus to
further accelerate growth.
CII set up the Food and Agriculture
Centre of Excellence (FACE) to
contribute to the ongoing policy
dialogue related to agriculture and
food-security concerns. The centre,
through its integrated approach of
action oriented programmes and
capacity building, addresses the
issues from the farm gate to the
consumer end.
■ Objectives
The Centre works closely with
farmers, companies, developmen­
tal institutions, and the Govern­
ment with the following objec­tives:
• Improving on and off-farm
productivity through the
introduction and dissemination
of global best practices and
technological innovation.
• I m p r o v i n g t h e g l o b a l
competitiveness of India’s
agricultural sector by investing
in capacity building initiatives
and skill development for supply
chain participants across the
value chain.
• Strengthening linkages across
the agriculture and food value
chain with an objective of
reducing spoilage, increasing
value addition and farmer
incomes.
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FACE works in close cooperation
with other Centres of Excellence in
CII to establish partnerships with
similar organizations/institutions
globally for maximum effectiveness.
■ Services portfolio
Comprising of an extensive team
of domain experts across verticals
FACE has evolved a robust services
portfolio and has establish itself as
a credible knowledge resource in
the agriculture and food domain.
• Research and policy: FACE has
been focusing extensively on
policy research and is engaged
in policy analysis, program
evaluation and impact studies.
• Value chain assessments:
Comprises commodity specific
value chain assessments and
supply chain advisory services
for food and agri businesses.
• Projects: FACE works on
projects in the PPP mode, to
develop agribusiness models
that are scalable and replicable
across geographies.
• Training and capacity building:
A series of capacity building,
training and consultancy
initiatives are undertaken under
FACE. These include on farm
training on Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP), post harvest
management and food safety.
• The Network of Agri-startups,
Venture financiers and
Incubators (NAVI) platform
provides handholding for
innovators, entrepreneurs and
start-ups providing them an
opportunity to showcase their
technology, mobilize funding
and secure potential incubation
opportunities and ongoing
industry mentoring.
• Promoting excellence:
Focused on creating a culture
of excellence two awards are
operational under FACE
a. CII Food Safety Award
b.
CII National Cold Chain
Awards.
■ New initiatives
To expand its services portfolio
new initiatives have been launched:
• Farmer Industry Alliance, a
stakeholder-led initiative, is
aimed at disseminating good
agricultural practices and
forging buyback linkages. The
Alliance has crop specific focus
and pilots have been launched
for Soybean and Tomato crop in
Maharashtra.
• FPO Business Service Unit,
launched with the aim to
develop sustainable business
plans for selected FPOs, with
a long-term vision of creating
livelihood, reducing waste and
creating markets for nutrition.
A pilot has been launched in
Uttarakhand with the aim to
cover 5000 farmers. The plan is
to scale the initiative pan-India.
• Project for upgradation of Rural
haats (unregulated periodic
rural markets) into Grameen
Agriculture Markets (GrAMs)
with the aim to enhance price
realization to farmers by
increasing value of produce
through proper post-harvest
management. For the pilot,
two haats have been identified
in Assam, Darangiri Banana
Market and a multi commodity
transaction market in
Bokhaghat District. The plan is
to further scale the intervention
across key agrarian states.
• CII and International Spirits
and Wines Association of
India (ISWAI) launched a
joint initiative - Centre for
Safe and Responsible Alcohol
Consumption (CeSRAC) to
address food safety risks and
further strengthen capacities of
the alcoholic beverage sector.
• The first ever Food Safety
Kaizen Competition Seminar
was launched for food
manufacturing, services and
laboratories.
• An online portal on nutrition
initiatives - Accelerating
Nutrition Delivery (AND)
has been developed with the
aim to serve as a platform to
promote collaboration across
private sector, NGOs, State
Governments and multilateral
agencies.
■ Partners
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FACE has been working
closely with Ministries and
Government agencies viz
Ministry of Agriculture, NITI
Aayog, National Centre for Cold
Chain Management (NCCD),
Ministry of Food Processing
Industries (MoFPI), Agricultural
and Processed Food Products
Export Development Authority
(APEDA), GS1 India, Food
Safety and Standards Authority
of India (FSSAI) and National
Institute of Food Technology
Entrepreneurship and
Management (NIFTEM).
• FACE has developed partnership
with ISWAI and International
A l l i an c e of D i e t ar y / Fo o d
Supplement Associations
(IADSA).
•
FACE has partnered with
Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition (GAIN) on nutrition
and fortification. Also partnered
with UNICEF and Sight and
Life, CSR box, NASSCOM
Foundation, TINI and WeCan to
set up Impact4nutrition focusing
on engaging private sector
in supporting the POSHAN
Abhiyaan.
■ Achievements
• Worked in 40 clusters across 6
high impact sectors -Midday
Meals, Anganwadis, Places of
Worship, Railways, Schools,
Sumit Mazumder, then President, CII and Chairman & Managing Director, TIL Limited
and Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII receiving Shri Narendra Modi, Prime
Minister of India at the Krishi Unnati Mela in New Delhi
Street Food Hubs across 15 • FSSAI-CHIFSS Training Package
states, 25 locations, covering - Fish and Fish Products
13000+ participants, impacting • FSSAI-CHIFSS Guidance
more than 2.4 crores meals Document on Microbiological
Process Control, Sampling and
annually through FACE –
Testing for Poultry
Mission Health-CII Foundation
•
Diagnostic Toolkit for Food
•
500+ participants in 110 Safety in Midday Meal Kitchens
locations trained on FSSAI’s • Training Manual on Smart Use of
Food Safety Training and Antibiotics in the Poultry Value
Chain
Certification programme
• Training Manual on Responsible
•
CII Aglive 2019 platform
Serving of Alcohol
identified five innovators who
have been shortlisted for further ■ Events
due diligence and incubation
• Advanced tech program 2019
opportunities.
• Food Processing Conclave 2019
• Nutrition Conclave 2019
■ Publications
• Fo o d S a f e t y Q u a l it y a n d
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AgTIVE 2019: AgTech Regulatory Summit 2019
Innovations for Viable Enterprise • CII Food Safety Awards
• Study on Ease of Setting up Cold • CII Cold Chain Awards
Chain Infrastructure
CII-Jubilant Bhartia Food
•
Value Chain Assessment of
& Agriculture Centre of
Fisheries supply chain in Andhra
Pradesh
Excellence
• Indian Food Processing sector: Andhra Association Building,
4th Floor, 24-25 Institutional Area
Trends and Opportunities 2019
Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110003,
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FSSAI – CHIFSS Guidance T: 011-45771000 / 24629994-7
Document - Risk Assessment of E: meetu.kapur@cii.in
W: www.face-cii.in
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