- The Food Corporation of India, as a novel initiative has launched India’s India’s First Food Museum in Tamil Nadu.
- The Museum has been set up at Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, which is also the cultural capital of the state.
- The FCI Food Musem has been setup to digitally exhibit the foodgrain production scenario in India and across the globe also to also highlight the challenges with regards to Food Storage.
- The museum has been established by FCI in association with Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM), Bengaluru.
- The museum has been setup at a cost of about ₹1.1 crore.
- Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution System Mr Piyush Goyal, inaugurated the museum through video conference.
- He was joined by FCI Chairman and Managing Director Atish Chandra for the ceremony.
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