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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2023 — General Studies · Question 96 of 200

Q96
Geography (incl. West Bengal)Minerals, Energy & Industry
In India the Food Processing Industry is most developed in
  1. a.West Bengal
  2. b.Gujarat
  3. c.Andhra Pradesh
  4. d.Haryana

Answer: (C) Andhra Pradesh

Answer as of 2023 — this may have changed since.

PSC's final answer key gives Andhra Pradesh (the provisional key had given Gujarat). According to the Annual Survey of Industries, Andhra Pradesh has the largest number of registered food-processing factories in the country (over 5,500 in 2021–22), followed by Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Punjab and Maharashtra. Its strengths are rice milling, seafood and aquaculture, eggs, mango pulp (Chittoor), chillies (Guntur) and edible oil; one of India's first mega food parks, Srini, was set up at Chittoor. Gujarat is better known for dairy processing (Amul, Anand). Central schemes for the sector are PM Kisan SAMPADA Yojana, PMFME and the PLI scheme for food processing.

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