It accounts for around United States $30 billion in an average of calculated market of United States $ 92 billion (Colin, 1992).
The CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) has calculated that the sectors of food processing have the essential of grabbing the attention of United States 33 billion of investment in ten years and produce employment of around 9 million person days. Many Schedule schemes has been implemented and formulated by the government to offer financial assistance for establishing and modernizing units of food processing, support for HRD and R&D, Infrastructure creation, in addition to other promotional measures to motivate the processed food sector growth. The food processing is a big sector that covers tasks such as horticulture, fisheries, agriculture, plantation and animal husbandry. It also consists of other industries that use inputs of agriculture for edible products manufacturing. The Indian government of Ministry of Food Processing denotes the following sections within the food processing industry such as grain processing, fruits, dairy and vegetables processing, fisheries, consumer foods consisting of beverages, packaged drinking water and packaged foods.
According to Fellows (1997) though the industry is big in size it is still a nascent stage in terms of country’s development of food produce and total agriculture only 2% is processed. The size of the industry has been calculated at United States $ 70 billion by the Ministry of Food Processing, Government of India. The food processing industry contributes to around 6.4% to India’s gross domestic product in 2003 and has a share of 6% in total industrial production.
它约占美国30000000000美元的平均计算市场的美国92000000000美元（柯林，1992）。
CII（印度工业联盟）的计算，食品加工行业抓住美国在十年内投资33000000000注意的本质和产生就业9000000人左右的日子。许多调度算法已经实现并由政府提供的建立和现代化食品加工单位的财政援助，支持人力资源开发和研发，建立基础设施，除了其他促销措施鼓励食品加工部门的增长。食品加工是一个大的部门，包括任务，如园艺，农业，渔业，种植业和畜牧业。它还包括其他行业使用的食用产品的生产投入。对食品加工部印度政府表示以下部分内的食品加工行业如粮食加工，水果，奶制品和蔬菜加工，水产，消费的食物包括饮料，包装饮用水和食品包装。
据研究员（1997）尽管行业大它依然是一个新生期国发展粮食生产和农业总只有2%加工。该行业的规模已在美国70000000000美元的食品加工部计算，印度政府。食品加工行业的贡献约6.4%，印度的国内生产总值的2003，占工业总产量的6%。
