Topic- Demographics Systematic Study Of Impact Of Subsidies And Incentives On Food Processing Unit Holders In Jammu Division.

Abstract

Subsidies and Incentives play vital effective role in the development of food processing industry. Industries are benefitted in different ways in terms of investment promotion, Job creation, Value addition, strengthening the supply chain, product diversification and many more. In this paper, 215 food processing units were examined among the unit holders of Jammu division, with a sample size of 31 parameters/statements were designed in the form of questionnaire and same were submitted to various respondents. The information collected by questions based on 5-Point-Likert scale which was later tabulated using SPSS. Exploratory factor analysis was used on 31 statements which were later converged into nine prominent factors using statistical tool viz; Government schemes and related subsidies performance. Based on the data collected the variance explained on nine factors is 9.413, with KMO value of 0.771 and Bartlett’s test of sphericity value of 3255.861 respectively. For further understanding of impact of factors influencing food processing unit’s growth within Jammu Division, two-Way ANOVA test was applied on the collected data to understand impact of factors identified and their relative significance on FPI’s in Jammu division. Tables, results and discussions and conclusions were drawn accordingly.