Agro Processing and Value Addition in India

The agro processing sector becomes significant in terms of effective utilization of agricultural raw materials, employment generation, augmenting domestic income and export revenue and also opens up new possibilities of industrial as well as economic development. Therefore expansion and diversification of value added agricultural exports are likely to be most promising means of increasing incomes and augmenting foreign exchange earnings. Value addition of agro products and its exporting becomes great urge in the current economic scenario of the country.In order to increase the revenue from agricultural product export, processing and value addition is inevitable.This book mainly focuses on the role of value addition to augment the export earnings from agricultural products in India.