As per the latest Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2018-19, total number of food processing units were 40,579 in the registered sector. In addition, as per the 73rd round of National Sample Survey (NSS) 2015-16, 24.59 lakh number of enterprises were in the unincorporated/unregistered food processing sector. The State-wise details of registered and unincorporated food processing units are attached at Annexure.
As per the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S) data, the details of processed food exportsduring the last five years are as under:
Year
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
2021-22
Processed food Export (in US$ million )
5273.85
6389.23
6264.02
8565.6
10420.0
The main exported processed food items are:refined sugar/ cane sugar/ cane molasses, soyabean oilcake and other residues, processed shrimps/prawns, extract /essence/ concentrates of coffee, preparation of animal feed, rape or cozla seed residues, sweet biscuits and other bakery products, sugar confectionery, whiskies, preps/ preserved gherkins and cucumbers, milling products including malt extracts etc.
Number of Food processing units/ enterprises in registered and unincorporated sector
S. No.
State
No. of Units*
No. of enterprises **
1
A & N Islands
4
774
2
Andhra Pradesh
5653
154330
3
Arunachal Pradesh
27
145
Assam
1569
65997
5
Bihar
884
145300
6
Chandigarh
17
656
7
Chhattisgarh
1630
26957
8
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
9
622
Daman & Diu
33
136
10
Delhi
169
14350
11
Goa
106
2929
12
Gujarat
2245
94066
13
Haryana
1045
24577
14
Himachal Pradesh
157
21885
15
Jammu and Kashmir
176
28089
16
Jharkhand
240
116536
Karnataka
2343
127458
18
Kerala
1708
77167
19
Lakshadweep
NA
127
20
Madhya Pradesh
927
102808
21
Maharashtra
2791
229372
22
Manipur
30
6038
23
Meghalaya
3268
24
Mizoram
1538
25
Nagaland
3642
26
Odisha
1188
77781
Puducherry
66
3482
28
Punjab
3114
63626
29
Rajasthan
898
101666
Sikkim
101
31
Tamil Nadu
4982
178527
32
Telangana
3900
80392
Tripura
105
13998
34
Uttar Pradesh
2105
350883
35
Uttarakhand
362
18116
36
West Bengal
2026
322590
Total
40,579
24,59,929
This information was given by Minister of State for M/o Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today