• JOHN MANG MUAN LIAN ZOU
• Ganga Prasad Prasain

A well developed food processing industry is expected to increase farm gate prices, reduce wastage, ensure value addition, promote crop diversification, generate employment opportunities as well as export earnings. Growth of food processing industries would provide expanding demand for farm produce, vegetables, fruits and other greens that would help improve agricultural incomes. The food processing industry has strong backward linkages with rural economy, as all the raw material is produced by rural people. Hence, any growth in food processing industry, positive or negative will have a direct impact on economy of rural India. Food processing industry would help in reducing rural urban disparity and ensuring household food and nutritional security for all at an affordable cost. The development of agro-based industries are easy to established and have the potential of providing steady and additional income to the rural people without making large initial investment. Thus, development of agro-based industries plays a significant role in the process of economic development in the country as a whole. made an attempt to review the relevant literature pertaining to the study of food processing Industry in India as well as in other country. For the healthy development of the food processing industry various government committees, experts, researchers, agricultural colleges, universities, research institutions has contributed by publishing their reports, findings, recommendations, after studying the problems and various aspects of food processing industry.

Keynotes: food, processing, industry, opportunities, development

"A STUDY ON FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL INCOME IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.324-341, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907646.pdf

"A STUDY ON FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL INCOME IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp324-341, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907646.pdf