Food and Agro- processing are a large sector which covers various activities such as agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries and horticulture. Food & Agro -processing helps to set of techno-economic activities, applied to all the products, originating from agricultural farm, aqua cultural sources, livestock and handling and food, handling and enhancing them to make usable like food, fiber, feed, fuel or industrial raw materials. A Food & Agro processing industries includes various things from in the drying, fermentation, malting till adopting various packaging techniques.
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For our country growth, an Agro based industries are so much beneficial as, it has less investment cost and give beneficial products. For Indian GDP growth, Food & Agro processing industry plays a crucial role in many ways such as for employment generation and the country’s growth in the near future. Food & Agro processing industries includes several methods that may help to add value to the raw food materials (including marine products, poultry and meat) which are ready to consume for human beings or animals. This raw food materials are later transformed into edible products by processing and value addition.
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NPCS’s aim to provide you complete detailed project report and act as complete assisting body for providing information to set-up of Food & Agro Processing Industries. NPCS work as assisting pillar throughout the project from finding right place to fund allocation.
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Demand:
The Indian is 6th largest country in terms of food and grocery market and the contributing approximate 70% of the sales to the retail market. This Industries accounts overall 32% of the country’s total food market and stand as one of the largest industries in India in terms of production, consumption, export and expected growth, achieve 5th position in overall market. Have 8.80 and 8.39% of Gross Value Added (GVA) in manufacturing and agriculture respectively. It accounts approximately 13% of India’s exports and 6% of total industrial investment. The Indian gourmet food market is currently valued at US$ 1.3 billion and is growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20%. By 2020, the India’s organic food market is expected to increase three times. Food & Agro Industries futher categorized as follows:
- Grain Processing.
- Food grains
- Rice
- Wheat
- Coarse Cereals
- Pulses
- Oilseeds
- Horticultural products
- Milk and milk products.
- Meat and poultry products.
- Marine Products.
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Investment:
At least 10 acres of land is required either by purchase or on lease of at least 50 years and that should be contiguous and free from any kind of encumbrance. This land needs to be accessible from everywhere such connectivity and availability of road, power, water and nearby location from identified Agri-horticulture production clusture.
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With the minimum Investment, at least 5 food processing units needs to be had minimum investment of minimum Rs. 25 crores for setting up Agro-processing cluster by the promoters and associates of Project Execution Agency (PEA) and by other entrepreneurs.
| S. No. | Segment | Various Sectors |
| 1. | Grains & Pulses | Rice mill, dal mill, flour mill, bakeries, starch & starch products, corn / wheat flakes, fermented products, malted foods, grain-based alcohol, etc. |
| 2. | Fruits & Vegetables | Juices, concentrates, pulp, slices, jams, jellies, purees, frozen and dehydrated products, etc. |
| 3. | Dairy products | Dairy products |
| Marine products | Fresh, frozen, dried and canned products. | |
| 4. | Meat & Poultry | Fresh meat, chilled, frozen and packed meat, value added meat products (Sausages, ham, bacon, nuggets etc.), egg & egg products etc. |
| 5. | Oils & Fats | Edible oils, spice oils and oleoresins, lard, margarine, etc. |
| 6. | Consumer Products | Snack food, biscuits, ready-to eat (RTE) food, extrusion cooked products, non-alcoholic beverages, etc. |
| 7. | Animal Feed | Poultry, cattle feed and pet food. |
| 8. | Food Preservation / Storage | Controlled atmosphere storages, precooling units, ripening chambers, silos. |
| 9. | Food Packaging | Aseptic packaging, intelligent or smart packaging, edible / water soluble packaging, modified atmospheric packaging, vacuum packaging, application of radio frequency identification (RFID) system and nano-technology in food packaging, etc. |
| 10. | Food safety / Quality certification | FSSA / HACCP / ISO 22000 / ISO 14000 etc. |
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Financial Supports:
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
- 100% is permitted under the automatic route in food processing industries.
- 100% is allowed through Government Approval route for trading in respect of food products manufactured in India.
- 100% is allowed for companies undertaking Single Brand Retail Trading in India (49% under Automatic route and approval route for beyond 49%).
- Up to 51% is permitted under approval route for Multi Brand Retail Trading with a condition that the minimum amount to be brought-in as FDI would be USD 100 million and 50% of this amount to be invested in back-end infrastructure.
- The foreign capital invested in India is generally allowed to be repatriated after payment of taxes due, except in cases where the sectoral or other conditions specifically mentions non-repatriation.
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PM Kisan SAMPADA Yojana:
- Mega Food Parks.
- Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure.
- Human Resources and Institutions.
- Creation/ Expansion of Food Processing/ Preservation Capacities.
- Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages.
- Infrastructure for Agro-processing Clusters.
- Operation Greens.
- Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure.
- Human Resources and Institutions.