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Industrial policy statement of July 1980 also emphasized the immense importance of agro based industries in India's context. One of the basic objectives of policy statement is strengthening of agricultural base by according a preferential treatment to agro based industries and promoting optimum inter-sectoral relationship. By considering the prospects of food processing industries, then Prime Minister Shri. Rajiv Gandhi in his address to the state industry minister's conference on December 10, 1986 viewed with respect to food processing industries in the following words: "One area where industry has not gone in to is food processing. And considering that agriculture is still the mainstay of our economy, food processing must be the logical next step, after putting agriculture on its seat with the green revolution.