World Food India 2025 Ends with record investments Speakers

1. Event Overview & Scale:

• The world food India 2025 , the flagship food processing summit in India , was successful in New Delhi .
• The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) organised the event over four days.
• It got 26 large local and foreign companies that signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs).

2. Investment & Creation of Employment:

• Secured investment commitments of over Rs1.02 lakh crore (in the order of $12.2 billion).
• It is expected to generate 64,000 permanent employment and more than 10 lakh indirect employment .
• Is one of the biggest investments in India food processing industry.

3. Sectoral/ Geographical Coverage:

• Allocative Sectors: There are dairy, meat and poultry, packaged and ready-to-eat food, spices and condiments, confectionery, edible oil, beverage, fruits and vegetables processing, and edible oil.
• Pan-India Investments: Pan-India investing in 18+ states, such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Punjab, Bihar, Northeastern states, and Jammu & Kashmir.

4. Strategic Significance:

• Strengthens the role of India as one of the leading food producers in the world .
• Is consistent with the priority of the government: Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) and Make in India .
• It is supposed to help farmers to increase their incomes, decrease food waste, and improve agro-exports .
• Reinforcements the farm to fork ecosystem as a whole with technological improvements and infrastructural growth.

5. Event Legacy:

• This bi-annual event was launched first in 2017 and has since proved an important investor attracting event.
• It is still expanding the food processing industry through Invest India .