Assam's Industry Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary on Wednesday said PepsiCo India has proposed to put Rs 400 crore in the state to set up a greenfield venture for assembling nibbling items. 

The state government provided an announcement saying a designation from PepsiCo India including Viraj Chouhan, Chief of Government Affairs and Communications Officer for India, Rahul Sharma, Public Policy and Government Affairs Officer, and Nitin Jindal, Associate Director-Business Planning, met Patowary in Guwahati to examine the proposition. 

"The group educated the clergyman that PepsiCo India has presented a proposition to set up a greenfield venture for assembling Lays and Kurkure in Assam worth Rs 400 crore. They expressed that the organization would take part in contract cultivating (buyback approach), whereby it would give seeds to ranchers and repurchase the developed potatoes from them. The organization would likewise give handholding backing to the ranchers. At this moment, PepsiCo India has been working with more than 24,000 ranchers in 13 conditions of India," the announcement said. 

Patowary guaranteed the group of the State Government's help and said that the Industries and Commerce Department would take up an activity with the State's Agriculture Department so that PepsiCo can straightforwardly prepare ranchers. As indicated by the announcement, authorities have been told to guarantee quick clearances with the goal that the task can be finished at the soonest. 

The clergyman additionally met a German assignment involving officials of German organizations and senior delegates of the nation's assembling businesses at a day-long symposium in the city.