(a) the total number of food processing industries (FPIs) in Jharkhand;
(b) the total number of projects pertaining to Food
Processing Industries accorded approval for different States
including Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh during the year 2006-
07; and
(c) the total number of foreign companies engaged in the
food processing industry in the country?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI SUBODH KANT SAHAI)
(a): Ministry of Food Processing Industries extends
financial assistance in the form of grant-in-aid to
implementing agencies/entrepreneurs for Technology
Upgradation/Modernization/Establishment of Food Processing
Units. Food Processing Industries are both in organized
and unorganized sectors and as such data of food processing
units in the country, including that of Jharkhand, is not
centrally maintained. During the Tenth Plan period,
namely, 2002-03 to 2006-07, 40 applications claiming grant
for Setting Up/Expansion/Modernization of Food Processing
Industries in Jharkhand have been received in the Ministry.
(b): The total number of projects pertaining to Food
Processing Industries accorded approval for Jharkhand and
Uttar Pradesh during the year 2006-07 is as below:
State No.of Approved cases
Jharkhand 5 Uttar Pradesh 55