Context:
Ministry of Food Processing Industries organised WFI 2023 to celebrate 2023 as International Year of Millets, and showcase India as ‘food basket of the world’.
About World Food India 2023:
- 1st edition was launched in 2017
- Gathering of manufacturers, producers, food processors, investors, policymakers, and organisations from across the global food ecosystem.
- Mascot – MillInd (a probot)
- Focus Pillars –
- Shree Anna (Millets): Leveraging India’s Super Food for the World
- Exponential Food Processing: Positioning India as the Global Hub
India’s Food Processing Industry (FPI):
- Emerged as “sunrise sector”
- 3 main pillars of India’s growth of FPI
- Small Farmers: Effective use of Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs) to increase their participation and profits. 7,000 FPOs have already been made.
- Small Industries: About 2 lakh micro enterprises are being organized to increase Small Scale Industries participation.
- Women: More than 9 crore women are associated with SHG. Also, PM disbursed seed capital assistance to over 1 lakh SHGs.
- Achievements –
- Attracted FDI investments of about ₹50,000 crores in past nine years.
- Processed food segment’s contribution to agri exports has grown to 23 percent, making an overall increase of 150 percent of exported processed foods.
- Processing Capacity increased to more than 200 lakhs metric tonnes.
- Seed capital to India’s food over 1.25 lakh processing addition of self-help groups in last 9 years
- Gross value of the food processing sector has surged from ₹1.34 lakh crores in 2014-15 to ₹2.08 lakh crores in 2021-22.
Source: PIB
Previous Year Question
Among the following, which one is the largest exporter of rice in the world in the last five years?
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2019 Prelims]
(a) China
(b) India
(c) Myanmar
(d) Vietnam
Answer: (b)
