Lok Sabha Question No. 3037 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-18
Subject: Setting up of Small-Scale Food Processing Units
Ministry: FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Shri Lalji Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3037

ANSWERED ON 18 TH  DECEMBER, 2025

## SETTING UP OF SMALL-SCALE FOOD PROCESSING UNITS

## 3037.  SHRI LALJI VERMA:

Will the Minister of FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  number  of  local  small-scale  food  processing  units  in  the  country  have reduced after the entry of multinational food processing companies;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to set up small-scale food processing units across the country;
- (d) if so, the number of small-scale food processing units set up/registered since the year 2019, State-wise;
- (e) whether the Government proposes to provide loans for setting up of small-scale food processing units; and
- (f) if so, the number of loan applications received from farmers of Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh for setting up small food processing units since the implementation of the said scheme along with the number of applications approved out of those?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI RAVNEET SINGH)

(a) to (f): Specific data regarding reduction of number of local small-scale food processing units after the entry of multinational food processing companies is not available in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI).

MoFPI does not setup any food processing industry on its own. However, it incentivizes setting up of such industries including small scale through its two Central Sector Scheme viz. Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY), Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI) and a Centrally sponsored PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME). These schemes are not region or state specific but demand driven and being implemented across the country including Uttar Pradesh. The details of  food  processing  projects  sanctioned  by  MoFPI  under  the  said  three  scheme  across  the country is given at Annexure.

Further,  with  a  view  to  promote  food  processing  industry  in  the  organised  sector, Government of India instituted the Food Processing Fund (FPF) with a corpus of Rs.2000 crore during  2014-15  in  NABARD  for  providing  affordable  credit  for  establishment  of  food processing industries in designated food parks notified by MoFPI from time to time.

Ministry  extends  financial  support  to  prospective  entrepreneurs  for  setting  up  of different kinds of food processing industries, as per respective scheme guidelines including Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Under PMFME Scheme, 551 micro food processing enterprises have been approved with credit linked subsidy of Rs 45.49 crores for assistance in the Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh till 31.10.2025.

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ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (f) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †3037  FOR  ANSWER  ON  18 TH  DECEMBER,  2025 REGARDING 'SETTING UP OF SMALL-SCALE FOOD PROCESSING UNITS'

## Number of projects approved under PMKSY, PLISFPI and PMFME schemes of MoFPI since inception of the scheme

|   S. No. | State/UT                            |   No. of approved projects under PMKSY |   No. of approved Micro Food Processing Enterprises under PMFME |   No. of approved applications at different locations under PLISFPI |
|----------|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman &Nicobar                    |                                      2 |                                                              18 |                                                                   0 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh                      |                                     76 |                                                            8087 |                                                                  38 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh                   |                                     12 |                                                             136 |                                                                   0 |
|        4 | Assam                               |                                    102 |                                                            4600 |                                                                   4 |
|        5 | Bihar                               |                                     15 |                                                           27723 |                                                                   7 |
|        6 | Chandigarh                          |                                      0 |                                                               5 |                                                                   0 |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh                        |                                     10 |                                                            1280 |                                                                   1 |
|        8 | Dadar &Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu |                                      1 |                                                              12 |                                                                   0 |
|        9 | Delhi                               |                                     22 |                                                             363 |                                                                   0 |
|       10 | Goa                                 |                                      2 |                                                             137 |                                                                   1 |
|       11 | Gujarat                             |                                    109 |                                                            1010 |                                                                  32 |
|       12 | Haryana                             |                                     99 |                                                            1633 |                                                                   9 |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh                    |                                     44 |                                                            2537 |                                                                   4 |
|       14 | Jammu &Kashmir                      |                                     41 |                                                            1938 |                                                                   2 |
|       15 | Jharkhand                           |                                      2 |                                                            4250 |                                                                   2 |
|       16 | Karnataka                           |                                     98 |                                                            7724 |                                                                  21 |
|       17 | Kerala                              |                                     54 |                                                            7937 |                                                                  10 |
|       18 | Ladakh                              |                                      0 |                                                              90 |                                                                   0 |
|       19 | Lakshadweep                         |                                      0 |                                                               0 |                                                                   0 |
|       20 | Madhya Pradesh                      |                                     51 |                                                           11944 |                                                                  10 |
|       21 | Maharashtra                         |                                    244 |                                                           26172 |                                                                  41 |
|       22 | Manipur                             |                                      8 |                                                             308 |                                                                   0 |
|       23 | Meghalaya                           |                                     10 |                                                             227 |                                                                   0 |
|       24 | Mizoram                             |                                      4 |                                                              56 |                                                                   0 |
|       25 | Nagaland                            |                                      4 |                                                             429 |                                                                   0 |
|       26 | Odisha                              |                                     30 |                                                            2732 |                                                                   5 |
|       27 | Puduchery                           |                                      2 |                                                             192 |                                                                   0 |
|       28 | Punjab                              |                                     76 |                                                            3021 |                                                                   9 |
|       29 | Rajasthan                           |                                     55 |                                                            1351 |                                                                   6 |
|       30 | Sikkim                              |                                      1 |                                                              65 |                                                                   0 |
|       31 | Tamil Nadu                          |                                    156 |                                                           17210 |                                                                  20 |
|       32 | Telangana                           |                                     67 |                                                            7266 |                                                                  13 |
|       33 | Tripura                             |                                      9 |                                                             248 |                                                                   0 |
|       34 | Uttar Pradesh                       |                                     99 |                                                           20575 |                                                                  27 |
|       35 | Uttarakhand                         |                                     59 |                                                            1037 |                                                                   7 |
|       36 | West Bengal                         |                                     55 |                                                             431 |                                                                   9 |