Globalization resulted in the opening up of the economy and emergence of variousemployment generating sectors like BPO and other IT services that deviate from thenormal working hours of 9am-5pm. In this changed economy the employment of women hasalso increased in various service sectors, thereby reducing their hours for household work likecooking. All these have resulted changing the consumption pattern of the household andpeople are experiencing a transition from homemade food to ready to eat food. Further, withthe growth of the economy a shift is also seen in the food basket of cereals to a more variedand nutritious diet of fruit & vegetables, milk, fish, meat & poultry products. Thus, in thisemerging economy with a large middle class of about 250 million Indian food processingIndustry has a huge potential for growth and boost country’s competitiveness. The present research paper is to give a brief view of state of Food Processing Industry in India.