AP Emerging Key Player In Food Processing Sector
Andhra Pradesh home to 9 clusters under PMFME, while Telangana gets 1 food processing cluster out of 40 such clusters across India
AP Emerging Key Player In Food Processing Sector
Financial, technical, and business support is provided under the PMFME Scheme, for setting up and upgrade of micro food processing enterprises. The scheme is operational for a period of up to 2025-26 with an outlay of Rs10,000 cr
Andhra Pradesh is emerging as a major player in the food processing industry, becoming home to nine clusters under the Pradhan Mantri Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme. Nationwide, the centrally-sponsored scheme promotes 40 such clusters. Telangana has one food processing cluster.
To promote local industries, the One District One Product (ODOP) approach has been adopted under the PMFME Scheme to reap the benefit of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services, and marketing of products. It provides the framework for value chain development and alignment of support infrastructure. ODOPs are identified by States and Union Territories (UTs) based on agriculture production, raw material availability, perishability of the product, etc.
This information was given by Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing Industries Ravneet Singh in a written reply in Lok Sabha. Andhra Pradesh’s production clusters are: at Chittoor, Anantpur for tomatoes; Cluster-1-Chittoor, Anantapuram, Kadapa, and Cluster-2-Krishna, for mangoes; Cluster-1-Kadapa, Anantapur, and Cluster-2-East Godawari, West Godawari, Visakhapatanam, Vizianagaram, for bananas; Cluster-1 Kurnool, Chittoor, Prakasam, Kadapa, Guntur, Anantapur, for beans; Cluster-1-Kurnool, Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa, for okra; and Cluster-1-East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, for shrimps. In fact, the shrimp cluster is the only one in the country. Telangana’s tomato cluster is at Ranga Reddy, Adilabad, Vikarabad.
Financial, technical, and business support is provided under the PMFME Scheme, for setting up and upgrade of micro food processing enterprises. The scheme is operational for a period of up to 2025-26 with an outlay of Rs10,000 crore.
Besides, there is the Production-Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI), which is intended to support the creation of global food manufacturing champions. The Scheme is operational for a period from 2021-22 to 2026-27 with an outlay of Rs10,900 crore.
There is also Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY) Scheme, which is credit-linked financial assistance (capital subsidy) for setting up of food processing industries with a total outlay of Rs5,520 crore.
