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The authorities has signed agreements with 26 overseas and home firms during the 'World Food India' acme for investments worthy ₹1.02 lakh crore successful India's nutrient processing sector.
The summit, organised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, was held astatine Bharat Mandapam successful the nationalist superior from September 25 to 28.
In an authoritative connection connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), the Ministry said the World Food India 2025 concluded connected a historical enactment with concern commitments of unprecedented scale.
"Over the people of the four-day event, 26 starring home and planetary companies signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) worthy a full of ₹1,02,046.89 crore, marking 1 of the largest concern announcements successful India's nutrient processing sector," the Ministry added.
On the archetypal time of the summit, inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Union Food Processing Minister Chirag Paswan had asserted that MoUs worthy implicit ₹1 lakh crore would beryllium signed during the four-day event.
"These MoUs are projected to make nonstop employment for implicit 64,000 radical and make indirect opportunities for much than 10 lakh individuals," the connection said.
The companies that signed MoUs see Reliance Consumer Products, The Coca-Cola System successful India, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul), Fair Exports (India) Pvt Ltd (Lulu Group), Nestle India, Tata Consumer Products Ltd and Carlsberg India Pvt Ltd.
BL Agro Industries, ABIS Foods & Proteins, ACE International, Patanjali Foods, Godrej Agrovet, Agristo Masa, Tiwana Nutrition Global, Haldiram Snacks Food, Indian Poultry Alliance, Mrs Bectors Food Specialities Ltd, Dabur India Ltd, Allana Consumer Products, Olam Food Ingredients, AB InBev, Cremica Food Park, Dairy Craft, Sundex Biotech, Naso Industries, and Bluepine Foods are the different companies which person signed MoUs.
The commitments span crossed divers segments, specified arsenic dairy, nutrient and poultry, packaged foods, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, spices and condiments, confectionery, edible oils, fruits and vegetables, and ready-to-eat products.
The projected investments would beryllium dispersed crossed aggregate states, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, and the north-eastern region.
Reliance Consumer Products Ltd has signed a ₹40,000-crore statement with the Food Processing Industries Ministry to found integrated nutrient manufacturing facilities crossed the country.
Three Coca-Cola bottlers successful India volition jointly put ₹25,760 crore ($2.96 billion) to grow the country's nutrient processing infrastructure and person signed memoranda of knowing with the Ministry for greenfield and brownfield projects.
Invest India, the nationalist concern promotion and facilitation partner, assisted the Ministry of Food Processing Industries successful signing these MoUs, the connection noted.
Besides attracting immense investments, the World Food India 2025 acme reaffirmed India's presumption arsenic a trusted planetary destination for nutrient processing, the authorities said.
"The lawsuit has laid a beardown instauration for sustainable growth, innovation, and planetary collaboration, further consolidating India's enactment successful shaping the aboriginal of planetary nutrient systems," it added.
The Ministry, successful concern with Invest India, volition proceed to enactment intimately with manufacture stakeholders to facilitate these investments and guarantee their effectual implementation, it noted.
