Question : Investment in Food Processing Sector

(a) whether several big industrial houses have invested in food processing industries during the last several years;

(b) if so, the quantum of investment made by these industrial houses during each of the last three years and the current year;

(c) the details of the food products for which the food processing industries were set up along with the quantum of food processed therein during the said period; and

(d) the percentile profit earned on the amount invested in this sector during the said period?

Answer given by the minister

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
(SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) to (d): The total number of companies which have been registered in India with business activity as manufacturing of food products and beverages up to 2009-10 to 2017-18 along with their authorised capital as on 31.03.2018, paid-up capital before tax for the three years 2014-15 to 2016-17 as furnished by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs is at Annexure.


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