(a) the amount spent on the Food Processing Industries in
the Tenth Five Year Plan;
(b) the number of people to whom employment has been
provided in the industry 2006-07 and likely to be provided
in 2007-08 separately;
(c) whether any target for creation and jobs has been fixed
for the said period and the measures taken to achieve this
target; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF THE STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES ( SHRI SUBODH KANT SAHAI )
(a): An amount of Rs.489.82 crores has been spent on
various Plan Schemes for the promotion of food processing
industries in the Tenth Five Year Plan.
(b): As far as large and medium scale industries in food
processing sector are concerned, based on the Industrial
Entrepreneurs Memorandum(IEMs) and Letters of Intent
(LOIs)/Direct Industrial Licenses (DILs) filed with the
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, the
proposed employment during 2006 has been around 31665. As
regards food processing industries in Small Scale sector,
according to information available, the employment in the
food processing units during 2005-06 for which latest
figures are available is estimated to be around 42.87
lakhs.
(c) & (d) : No specific target for creation of jobs has
been fixed for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08. However,
the Ministry of Food Processing Industries has finalized
Vision 2015 on Food Processing Industries which envisages
cluster based and demand driven farming, achieving
integration of food processing infrastructure from farm to
market and promoting a dynamic food processing industry
which could result in trebling the size of the processed
food sector by increasing the level of processing of
perishables from 6% to 20%, value addition from 20% to 35%
and share in global food trade from 1.5% to 3% by 2015.
Government has identified strategies along with a detailed
action plan to realize the Vision 2015. The realization of
the Vision 2015 is expected to generate 1.8 million direct
and 6.4 million indirect employment.