New Delhi : As per the latest Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) 2018-19, total number of food processing units were 40,579 in the registered sector. In addition, as per the 73rd round of National Sample Survey (NSS) 2015-16, 24.59 lakh number of enterprises were in the unincorporated/unregistered food processing sector. The State-wise details of registered and unincorporated food processing units are attached at Annexure.
As per the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S) data, the details of processed food exports during the last five years are as under:
| Year | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
| Processed food Export (in US$ million ) | 5273.85 | 6389.23 | 6264.02 | 8565.6 | 10420.0 |
The main exported processed food items are: refined sugar/ cane sugar/ cane molasses, soyabean oilcake and other residues, processed shrimps/prawns, extract /essence/ concentrates of coffee, preparation of animal feed, rape or cozla seed residues, sweet biscuits and other bakery products, sugar confectionery, whiskies, preps/ preserved gherkins and cucumbers, milling products including malt extracts etc.
ANNEXURE
Number of Food processing units/ enterprises in registered and unincorporated sector
| S. No. | State | No. of Units* | No. of enterprises ** |
| 1 | A & N Islands | 4 | 774 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 5653 | 154330 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 27 | 145 |
| 4 | Assam | 1569 | 65997 |
| 5 | Bihar | 884 | 145300 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 17 | 656 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 1630 | 26957 |
| 8 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 9 | 622 |
| 9 | Daman & Diu | 33 | 136 |
| 10 | Delhi | 169 | 14350 |
| 11 | Goa | 106 | 2929 |
| 12 | Gujarat | 2245 | 94066 |
| 13 | Haryana | 1045 | 24577 |
| 14 | Himachal Pradesh | 157 | 21885 |
| 15 | Jammu and Kashmir | 176 | 28089 |
| 16 | Jharkhand | 240 | 116536 |
| 17 | Karnataka | 2343 | 127458 |
| 18 | Kerala | 1708 | 77167 |
| 19 | Lakshadweep | NA | 127 |
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 927 | 102808 |
| 21 | Maharashtra | 2791 | 229372 |
| 22 | Manipur | 30 | 6038 |
| 23 | Meghalaya | 30 | 3268 |
| 24 | Mizoram | NA | 1538 |
| 25 | Nagaland | 20 | 3642 |
| 26 | Odisha | 1188 | 77781 |
| 27 | Puducherry | 66 | 3482 |
| 28 | Punjab | 3114 | 63626 |
| 29 | Rajasthan | 898 | 101666 |
| 30 | Sikkim | 20 | 101 |
| 31 | Tamil Nadu | 4982 | 178527 |
| 32 | Telangana | 3900 | 80392 |
| 33 | Tripura | 105 | 13998 |
| 34 | Uttar Pradesh | 2105 | 350883 |
| 35 | Uttarakhand | 362 | 18116 |
| 36 | West Bengal | 2026 | 322590 |
| Total | 40,579 | 24,59,929 |
Source: *Annual Survey of Industries 2018-19, **National Sample Survey 73rd round (July 2015- June 2016) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
This information was given by Minister of State for M/o Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today
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