Agro-industrial parks

1 AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ENGINEERING WORKING DOCUMENT 3 Agro-industrial parks Experience from India AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD ENGINEERING WORKING DOCUMENT 3 Agro-industrial parks Experience from India by K. Laxminarayana Rao FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2006 The Agricultural and Food Engineering Working Document disseminates findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas and experiences related to agricultural and food engineering within agri-food systems.

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4 FAO 2006 iiiContents Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi Preface xii List of abbreviations xv 1. Background 1 Food security for expanding populations 1 Adding value and creating wealth 2 agro -industries in India 3 Farmer s market on the outskirts of Bangalore. Yelahanka then and now 3 Agro-industrial parks 5 Technical information - Karnataka State initiative 7 Food India 7 Becoming involved 8 2.

5 Raw material resources 9 Importance of raw material resources 9 Agricultural production India 10 Production trends and growth rates 11 Trends in productivity of major food crops 12 Production of agricultural crops in India 12 Post-harvest technologies 16 Institutional support and inputs influencing agricultural production 17 Agricultural production in Karnataka 19 Horticultural crops in Karnataka

6 20 Production and consumption balance 21 3. agro -processing industries in developing countries 23 agro -food processing industries in India 23 Food processing industry profile 24 Status small-scale food processing industries and prospects for processed foods 26 Technology profile of agro -food industries in developing countries

7 28 Constraints with developing agro -food industries 31 Need for creating new processing capacity 31 Locating food processing industries 33 4. Markets 35 Markets for industrial plots or units 35 Markets for Agro-industrial products 36 Agro-industrial base 36 Food processing industries in Karnataka

8 41 Domestic markets for processed foods 42 Export markets for agricultural products and processed food products 44 Market driven Agro-industrial projects 45 Requirements for primary processing units 46 Requirements for secondary and tertiary processing units 46 Commercial infrastructure facilities 47 5.

9 Challenges for agro -industries 49 Constraints affecting the growth of agro -food industries 49 Reasons for poor export performance 50 Need for quality control facilities 51 Detention of food shipments at ports of entry 51 Need for quality control of raw materials 53 iv Food quality control 57 Common facilities for quality control 57 Need for warehouses and cold storage

10 58 Need to propagate crop varieties required for processing 58 6. Government support policies 61 Need for policy support 61 Policies affecting the development of food processing industries 62 Land policies 62 Agricultural policies 63 Licensing.