Agro-based industries play a vital role in the development of India's rural economy, which has been receiving increasing attention from the central as well as state government, in view of its importance to the national reconstruction.
The economic prosperity of a developing country like India depends largely on the development of agro-based industries which in turn leads to the creation of forward and backward linkages of the development process on large scale by making mutual complementary of agriculture and industries.
The study of essentially empirical in nature and attempts to make an economic-analysis of agro based industries in India and Karnataka in general and Hyderabad Karnataka region in particular for the post liberalization period, i.e., from 1990-91 to 2004-05.
Industries which get their raw material from agricultural sector such as sugar, edible oil, silk, jute, woolen textiles, cotton textile.
Agro-based processing industries