The projects are estimated to generate 30,000 jobs and are mostly pertain to rice mills, oil seeds, fruit and vegetable processing, and consumer food products
Avanti Feeds, Godrej Agrovet, Sheetal Cool Products, Foods & Inns, Freshtrop Fruits, Amrit Corp and Sampre Nutritions were up in the range of 5% to 14%.
Govt approved 63 cold chain projects and more proposals have been received
At present, the size of India's food processing industry is about Rs 1.5 lakh crore