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PLISFPI boosts food processing with Rs 1,726 crore incentives
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Monday, 25 August, 2025, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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The incentives under the Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI), are admissible where the entire chain of manufacturing processes, including primary processing of the food products applied for coverage under the scheme takes place in India. Total export of agricultural processed food products of the applicants approved under PLISFPI has increased with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13.23% as on 2024-25 with reference to 2019-20. The scheme does not cover floricultural production.
278 food processing units of 170 applicants have been approved under various categories of the PLISFPI implemented by Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), across the country. A total of Rs 1726.60 crore has been released as incentives till June 2025.
The scheme has led to increase in food processing capacity of 35.00 lakh MT per annum in the Country. The total number of about 3.39 lakhs, both Direct and Indirect employment, have been generated so far under the PLISFPI.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Ravneet Singh in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
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