The Food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the worlds population. The term food industries covers a series of industrial activities directed at the production, distribution, processing, conversion, preparation, preservation, transport, certification and packaging of foodstuffs. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes.
Many food industries depend almost entirely on local agriculture, produce, or fishing.It is challenging to find an inclusive way to cover all aspects of food production and sale. The system also includes the food marketing industries that link farms to consumers, and which include food and fibre processors, wholesalers, retailers, and foodservice establishments. Food processing includes the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption. Food processing takes clean, harvested or slaughtered and butchered components and uses them to produce marketable food products.
