Ministry of Food Processing Industries
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Food Processing Industries

Posted On: 13 DEC 2022 5:46PM by PIB Delhi

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation brings out data on various aspects of registered manufacturing sectors including food processing sector through the Annual Survey of Industries. As per the latest Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2019-20, 41481 food processing units existed in the country.  The State-wise details are attached as Annexure.

As per Directorate of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS) under the Department of Commerce, inter alia, the major exported processed food items in recent years have been:

Marine products including shrimps & prawns, animal feed, instant coffee, oil cake & oil cake meal, sweet biscuit & other bakery products, preparations/preserved cucumber & gherkins, jams, jellies, marmalades of mango etc.

The export of processed food items during the last five years is given below:

                                                                                              Figures in US$ Million

 

2017-18

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

Processed-Food Export

 

5,273.85

6,389.23

6,264.02

8,565.6

10,420.0

 Source: DGCIS, Kolkata

 

                                                                                                                                     ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1100 FOR ANSWER ON 13TH DECEMBER, 2022 REGARDING

FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

State wise number of Food Processing units

 

Sl.No.

Name of the state/ UT

No of Units

1

A & N Islands

4

2

Andhra Pradesh

5737

3

Arunachal Pradesh

29

4

Assam

1582

5

Bihar

896

6

Chandigarh

19

7

Chhattisgarh

1761

8

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

10

9

Daman & Diu

33

10

Delhi

175

11

Goa

103

12

Gujarat

2356

13

Haryana

1066

14

Himachal Pradesh

172

15

Jammu and Kashmir

179

16

Jharkhand

237

17

Karnataka

2361

18

Kerala

1743

19

Lakshadweep

NA

20

Madhya Pradesh

1018

21

Maharashtra

2728

22

Manipur

30

23

Meghalaya

32

24

Mizoram

29

25

Nagaland

20

26

Odisha

1211

27

Puducherry

68

28

Punjab

3267

29

Rajasthan

956

30

Sikkim

19

31

Tamil Nadu

4995

32

Telangana

3989

33

Tripura

117

34

Uttar Pradesh

2127

35

Uttarakhand

345

36

West Bengal

2067

 

Total

41481

                               Source: Annual Survey of Industries 2019-20

This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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