Organized Food Processing Industries in Haryana- Growth, Status and its Prospects

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  • Saraswati ‎

Abstract

Haryana is predominantly an agrarian state. Haryana produces a variety of food crops like rice, wheat, grams and fruits & vegetables. These agriculture commodities have great potential for supporting food processing industries in the state. However the processing level is very low in fruits & vegetables it is 1%, milk is 28%, meat and Fish 1% and poultry is 2% only. This is an indication of the weak food processing Industrial base in the state. But huge production points out that there is a great scope for the growth of food processing industries in the state. As food processing has enormous potential in the state, the government of Haryana takes FPI as a thrust area in their policies and provide so much assistance and subsidies for their establishment and development. In order to evolve a strategy to promote this sector in right direction this paper provides a detailed analysis of food processing industries in Haryana .Growth and status of Food processing industries examined with total manufacture sector of Haryana and food processing sector of India . Some basic characteristics measured like compound growth rate, Raw material intensity, Capital intensity, labour intensity, net value added per unit of invested capital and profit per unit of invested capital and Cobb Douglas production Function also used to estimate the parameters of production function. Employment status of food processing industries in Haryana also examined. This paper has three sections.

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2020-04-05

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