The document discusses Pakistan's food processing industry, which ranks second after textiles in terms of labor employed. It describes several sectors including fruit and vegetable processing, beverages, grain milling, baking, snacks, oils, dairy, meat, fish, and confectionery. The industry has grown from small cottage enterprises to include many large-scale commercial producers. While some sectors like beverages and snacks are well developed, others like fruit/vegetable and meat processing still have room for growth. Overall the industry provides consumers with nutritious processed foods but could be improved by longer term strategic planning incorporating food science.

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Food Industry
in Pakistan

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INTRODUCTION
•Developments in food science and technology
•Numerous food industries emerged
– Cottage to large-scale enterprises
•In Pakistan, in terms of labour engaged, food
industry ranks second after textile
•Food industries may be grouped:
– According to raw materials used
– Processes employed.

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FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROCESSING
•Raw materials from farm
•Preserve fruits and vegetables by:
–Canning
–Dehydration
–Cold storage
–Freezing
–Pickling
–Use of chemical additives
•Also process into juices, juice based beverages,
jams, jellies, marmalades, other products.

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FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROCESSING contd..
•Canning not much popular in Pakistan
•Few establishments can some fruits, vegetables
•Most produce destined for armed forces
•Little available in open market
•Some canned foods exported
• Prominent industries:
– Mitchell’s (Renala Khurd)
– Ahmad Foods (Karachi)
– Shezan International (Lahore).

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Fruit and Vegetable Processing contd....
•Dried fruits - figs, raisins, prunes, dates. etc
produced in respective growing regions
•Sun-drying - Some vegetables on small scale
•Commercial dehydration plants - still scarce
•Few plants in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad,
Gujranwala, Rawalpindi and Peshawar dehydrate
selected fruits, vegetables
•Liaquat Corp. (Gujranwala) and Pacific (Lahore)
pack dehydrated fruits
•Dehydrated spices entered groceries.

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Fruit and Vegetable Processing contd....
•Jams, jellies, ketchup, pickles. manufactured:
–Shezan (Lahore)
–Kinza (Hattar)
–National (Karachi)
–Best Foods (Lahore)
–Vita (Lahore)
–Galaxy (Faisalabad)
–Mitchell’s (Renala Khurd)
–Dittu (Quetta).

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Fruit and Vegetable Processing contd....
• Cold storages scattered all over
• Available at suitable rent to farmers and others
• Chambers maintain temperature only
• No control over atmospheric gases
• Food commodities stored vary:
– Onions, potatoes, Kinnows, apples.

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Beverage Industry
• Carbonated beverages - manufactured from
water, sugar, organic acids, flavours, colours,
carbon dioxide
• Locally prepared on small scale replaced by
international brands
• More than 20 large units in all big cities
• Some leading brands - Coca Cola, Fanta,
Sprite, Seven up, Pepsi Cola, Teem, RC Cola.

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Beverage Industry contd...
•Still beverage industry started early 1960’s
• Shezan and Benz (Lahore) pioneered
• Numerous plants established, produce ready to
drink fruit based or synthetic still beverages
• Available in different packaging materials - Tetra
Pak, glass bottles (returnable and non-
returnable), non-returnable polyester (PET)
• Some manufacturers - Vita, Shezan, Benz,
Golden, Flora, Country Juice, Poly and Maaza.

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Beverage Industry contd....
•Pure fruit juices packed by very few firms
• Among these:
– Nestlé Milkpak (Lahore)
– CDL Foods (Lahore)
– Shezan (Lahore).

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Wheat & Grain Milling Industry
• Raw material - wheat, rice, corn, other cereals
• Wheat milled in local chakkies or modern fully
automatic roller flourmills
• Over 400 units operating, mainly in Punjab and
Sindh
• Products obtained - Whole-wheat flour (atta),
maida, and suji.
•Bran separated from grains as by-product.

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Wheat and Grain Milling Industry contd..
• Rice milling industries - about 200 units
• Concentrated in rice-growing areas of Punjab
and Sindh
• In Punjab most located in Gujranwala and
Sheikhupura, Jhang districts
• Main product - Polished rice
• By-products - Rice bran and rice polishing.

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Wheat and Grain Milling Industry contd..
•CPC Rafhan at Faisalabad processes maize
•Separates germ from endosperm - produce corn
oil
•Endosperm processed into numerous products
including corn starch and syrup
•Fauji Cereals (Rawalpindi) and Paradise Trading
Co. (Karachi) manufacture breakfast foods from
corn and other cereals.

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BAKING INDUSTRY
• 1947 - one bakery plant in Lahore, BP
• Presently 58 large baking units with about 162
ovens
•Developments in equipment fabrication within
country encouraged proliferation
• Capacity about 1,32,000 tonnes per annum
• Vita Pakistan 13 production units
• Other prominent names - Dawn, Bunny’s,
Wonder, BP, Marygold
•Primary products - leavened bread, buns, rusks,
cakes and cookies.

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Baking Industry contd....
•Plants for manufacture of flat bread (roti)
established in some parts of the country
•Closed down
• Recently, Dawn, Bunny’s and some others
introduced flat bread and paratha.

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Baking Industry Biscuits contd...
250 biscuit producers in market
 About 200 biscuit factories in operation
Manufacturers with modern facilities:
Vita Foods Sufi Foods
Silver Lake Mehtab Industries
Continental British Biscuits
Big Mak Diamond
Montgomery Biscuits Kims

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Snack Food Industry
 Roasted and fried nuts, potato chips, popcorn,
fried noodles, fried daals, others
 Salted and fried snacks produced at:
 Street level
 Small shops
 Small sized units
 Modern plants
 Some manufacturers:
 Vita Pakistan Ltd. Tripple Em
 Bunny’s Mr. Chips
 Standard Foods Nirala Foods
 Usman Foods Appeta Foods

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Snack Food Industry – contd..
 Extruded snacks relatively new
 Generally corn and rice based products
 Produced only by modern plants
 Leading producers
Tripple Em
 Appeta Foods

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Vegetable Ghee & Oil Industry
•Vanaspati ghee introduced by UniLever Pakistan
(Karachi) with brand name “Dalda”
•Manufactured from vegetable oils
•Presently over 200 units producing vegetable
ghee/cooking oil
•Some important industries:
–Ahmed Vegetable Oil (Karachi)
–Wazir Ali (Hyderabad)
–Habib Oils (Karachi)
–CPC Rafhan (Faisalabad)

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Sugar Industry
• About 78 sugar mills
• 40 in Punjab
• 32 in Sindh
• 6 in NWFP
• Installed capacity 5.5 million tonnes sugar
• Limited supply of sugarcane resulted in nearly
45 percent capacity utilization for last few years.

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Confectionery Industry
Over 200 large and small units
Produce variety of confectionery items:
 Hard-boiled sweets
 Toffees
 Chewing gums
 Chocolates
 Other products

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Confectionery Industry - contd
Some well-known manufactures:
 Aamir Foods (Faisalabad)
 Goni Food Industry (Faisalabad)
 Asian Foods (Lahore)
 Big Mak (Lahore)
 Gujranwala Foods (Gujranwala)
 Mitchell’s Fruit Farms (Renala Khurd)
 Montgomery (Sahiwal)
 Hilal Confectionery (Karachi)
 English Sweets (Karachi)
 Candyland (Karachi)

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Confectionery Industry contd..
•Sweetmeat industry still operating at small
scale
• Produce sold fresh on counter
• Some manufacturers in Karachi pack varieties
in tin cans, longer shelf life
• Nirala Sweets (Lahore) manufactures large
variety of sweetmeat products for local
markets and export to Middle East.

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Dairy Industry
• Liberal bank loans for development of agro-
based industries provided impetus to dairy
industry
• Numerous plants established, mostly in Punjab
• Dairy plants mainly manufacture long-life milk in
Tetra or Brick packs
• Ghee, yoghurt, cheese, powdered milk and
evaporated milk some other products
• Well-known dairy plants:
• Nestlé Milkpak, CDL Foods, Millac, Vita,
Pakistan, Milkfoods (Jhang), Prime Dairies
(Raiwind), Noon Dairies (Bhalwal).

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Ice Cream Manufacturing
•Traditional ‘kulfi’ and ‘kulfa’ still available on
small hand-carts (rehri) or shops
•Market taken over by large organizations -
introduced street vending on tricycle
freezing cabinets
•Few ice cream plants located in Lahore, Karachi,
Islamabad and other cities
•Important plants: Walls, Polka, Yummy, Rocco,
Smile, Igloo, Hico, and A-One.

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Meat and Poultry Processing
• Beef, poultry processed into sausages,
whole frozen birds or pieces, & canned
• Euro (Peshawar) and Kings (Islamabad)
manufacture beef sausages
• Be Be Jan (Lahore), K&N (Lahore) and Captain
Butcha (Karachi) - modern facilities for
processing and freezing poultry - retail sale
and supply to large catering organizations
• Shezan (Lahore), Ahmad (Karachi) and
Mitchell’s (Renala Khurd) engaged in
canned meat products
• Others: Continental Foods (Peshawar), Hunza

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Fish Processing
• Concentrated in Karachi and coastal areas of
Baluchistan and Sindh provinces
•Total 29 fish processing plants:
–4 in Pasni and Gwador
–rest in Karachi
•Major products - canned, frozen, dried and
salted fish
•Some fish industries - Lotus Fisheries, Mekran
Fisheries, Seamiles International, Seven Seas,
Spectrum Fisheries.

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Conclusions
Food processing industry second largest
employer of labour
Due to certain social, cultural and economic
constraints, fruit, vegetable and meat processing
industries not much developed
Beverage industry (still and carbonated) taken
big stride in past few decades
 Sugar industry, vegetable oil and ghee
manufacturing, flour milling, and baking industry
provide consumer with variety of hygienic and
nutritious products.

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Conclusions contd....
• Snack food and confectionary well developed
• Need to plan food processing industry on
scientific lines
•Need to find ways to implement agreed upon
programmes in long term perspective in which
food science and technology will be a substantial
part of the adopted strategy.