REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 INTRODUCTION:
In this chapter the researcher has made an attempt to review the relevant literature pertaining to the study of food processing Industry.
Referring to the food processing industry many scholars have considered the field of organizational practice as of having greater significance. The food processing industry in India over the 50 years of planned development has made dynamic progress, both in terms of number of units and combination to the total food production. With the development of the food processing industry, a number of problems arose from time to time, which were mainly concerned with the management and government policies, labour and by-products, et.al.
For the healthy development of the food processing industry various government committees, experts, researchers, agricultural colleges, universities, research institutions has contributed by publishing their reports, findings, recommendations, after studying the problems and various aspects of food processing industry, which are reviewed as follows.
2.2 LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Dr. Amiya Kumar Behera, in his Report on APO Multi-Country Study
Mission on Rural-Based Food Processing Industry has reported that poverty and unemployment in the rural areas are the two most important challenges
India faces. In spite of all the industrial development in the country, agriculture still maintains about 70 percent of the population of the country. It is in the rural areas again where 75 percent of the population of the country lives and they will continue to constitute at least two-thirds of labor force. It is imperative therefore that the rural economy is improved, so the burden of poverty can be lessened and the working population overflowing from the villages can be absorbed in off-farm activities. The rural economy cannot be developed fully by improving only the productivity of agriculture, although this will go a long way in improving