The food processing industry is among the sectors reserved for the small scale industry. If you want start any small scale business in India then you can think about establish food processing business. You can start food processing business in small or low budget. Food processing business are little hard but profitable business. Starting any business is no easy task, and becoming a food entrepreneur is a special challenge. You'll have to prepare yourself for the hard work and dedication it takes to succeed in the food business. The food processing sector is a highly fragmented industry has the potential to be the driver of economic growth and enhance rural incomes. Food processing involves any type of value addition to agricultural or horticultural produce and also includes processes such as grading, sorting, and packaging which enhance shelf life of food products. First of all you must decide on what type of food product you want to provide to your customers. There are several choices available like Milk and Milk Products, Marine Products, grain processing, fruits and vegetable processing, fisheries, consumer foods include packages foods, meat & poultry processing, Beer & Alcoholic Beverages, Consumer Foods i.e. confectionery, chocolates and cocoa products, soya-based products, mineral water, high protein foods, soft drinks, ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook products, salted snacks, chips, pasta products, bakery products and biscuits and it is always a good idea to have a wide variety of processed food to choose from. India is the second largest producer of food in the word. The Food Processing Industry in India offers unique opportunities in production and export of processed food. It has a strong and dynamic food processing sector playing a vital role in diversifying the agricultural sector, improving value addition opportunities and creating surplus food for agro-food products. Food processing is the transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, marketable and often long shelf-life food products. Benefits of food processing include toxin removal, preservation, easing marketing and distribution tasks, and increasing food consistency.
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