Tetra Pak Convenes Industry Leaders and Policymakers to Advance Dialogue on Strengthening

The event commenced with a keynote address by Shri Siraj Hussain, Former Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. He stressed the importance of leveraging innovation and technology to strengthen the resilience, efficiency and sustainability of India's food.

Rajbir Singh, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Extension), ICAR, then took the stage and spoke about how the growth in food production is a testament to the resilience of India's agricultural system. A central theme emerging from the discussions was the need to strengthen the.

What Happened

Reducing food loss and waste through improved post-harvest management, processing, packaging, and logistics. Investing in processing and packaging infrastructure and innovative technologies to extend shelf life, improve food availability, and reduce losses across the food value chain.

• Going forward, the focus must be on reducing post-harvest losses from the current 15-20% to around 5% by 2047, while improving nutrient-use efficiency, mechanization and water-use efficiency.

• "At present, overall post-harvest losses are around 15-20%, and we want to reduce them to around 5% by 2047," he added.

• With over 24,000 employees worldwide, we commit to making food safe and available everywhere, and we promise to protect what's good: food, people and the planet.

Key Details

Leveraging food processing, sustainable packaging, and digital technologies to improve supply chain efficiency and minimize losses.

• Working with our customers and suppliers, we provide access to safe, nutritious food for hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries every day.

• Tetra Pak is a world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company.

• It was therefore underscored that the need to consider the inclusion of FLW reduction targets in India's NDCs, alongside greater recognition of innovative technologies in food processing and packaging that can help India achieve.

Why It Matters

The discussions also emphasized that, without specific and measurable targets for reducing Food loss and Waste (FLW)efforts to address the issue are likely to remain only partially successful.

• From a policy perspective, participants highlighted the need for agencies to collect more granular, ground-level data on food loss and waste to enable better identification of hotspots, inform targeted interventions, and track progress.

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