With a spurt in demand from overseas for Indian dishes like saag, rajmah and kurhi pakora, Punjab government-owned Markfed aims to achieve INR100-120 million export turnover from canned food this fiscal.
In the past Markfed has exported canned-food items mainly to Western Asia (about 50 percent of total exports), but in the last year demand from other countries including Australia has increased a great deal, according to Markfed Cannery sources.
(Source: Business Standard)