Study of Skilled Labour Deployment and It's Impact in MSME Food Processing Industry

The MSME Food Processing units have been facing certain challenges that are unique to them. Labor migration from villages to cities have created a paucity of skilled manpower, private labels by multi-brand retailers, bigger companies and MNC’ engaging in contract farming etc; !lso recent government policies have not helped. On the other hand, recent unpredictable climatic changes have added to their woes. On one hand, the sector has great propensity to create employment, especially in rural area, and on the other hand it suffers from lack of skilled labor availability. The lack of skilled labor introduces quality issues in products, increases wastages and lowers the yield thereby lowering the efficiency of entire business. The small units do not see the intangible benefits of employing skilled labor; Its’ also a fact that even if they do realise this, it may not be available in rural areas where these units are. Addressing this problem would result in overall growth of food processing industry and uplifting of rural economy of India as well.