Agro-food processing technology vision 2020 fruits and vegetables current: status and vision

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: TIFAC:V:01:DR(FV)Publication details: New Delhi 1996 India. Department of Science and TechnologyDescription: 250 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.47664 T3A4
Summary: Agro-food processing industries have been chosen as one of the Technology Mission Areas for more reasons than one. The share of the agricultural sector in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in ht Indian economy declined from nearly 5 5per cent in 1951/52 to 28 percent in 1993/94. However, this structural change in output has not been accompanied by a corresponding change in the occupational structure of the country’s labour force. Nearly 74 percent of the country’s population lives in rural areas. A little over 60 percent of the total labour force is still engaged in the agricultural sector. The rural economy has so far been unable to absorb the increasing rural labour force in production activities and this has been a big constraint for reducing the incidence of rural poverty. Agro-food processing industries have the potential to generate directly significant employment in production activities and also indirect employment through its forward and backward linkages. This employment will be in rural areas where these industries have to be located near the source of raws materials, especially perishable agricultural products. https://tifac.org.in/index.php/8-publication/207-agro-food-processing-technology-vision-2020-fruits-vegetables-current-status-vision?showall=1
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Agro-food processing industries have been chosen as one of the Technology Mission Areas for more reasons than one. The share of the agricultural sector in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in ht Indian economy declined from nearly 5 5per cent in 1951/52 to 28 percent in 1993/94. However, this structural change in output has not been accompanied by a corresponding change in the occupational structure of the country’s labour force. Nearly 74 percent of the country’s population lives in rural areas.
A little over 60 percent of the total labour force is still engaged in the agricultural sector.
The rural economy has so far been unable to absorb the increasing rural labour force in production activities and this has been a big constraint for reducing the incidence of rural poverty.
Agro-food processing industries have the potential to generate directly significant employment in production activities and also indirect employment through its forward and backward linkages.
This employment will be in rural areas where these industries have to be located near the source of raws materials, especially perishable agricultural products.

https://tifac.org.in/index.php/8-publication/207-agro-food-processing-technology-vision-2020-fruits-vegetables-current-status-vision?showall=1

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