India on the path to feed global population According to reports, India ranks first among the worlds milk-producing nations since 1998, worlds second largest producer of food grains, fruits, and vegetables, worlds largest processor and third largest producer of cashew nuts. India food basket is diversified with products like milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables, meat and fish. Looking at the growth and increase in agricultural produce Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal states that through an efficient Food Processing sector, India is on its path to become the food factory of the world where it could export food to countries not only in the vicinity, but those who need it.   At the recently held 19th IUFoST World Food Science and Technology Congress in Mumbai researchers, academicians, professionals, policy makers and the food scientists and industries fraternity came together to cover the latest advances in our understanding of food in all its manifestations like food safety, food security, regulations, innovations in food processing, hygienic design and engineering, frontier areas in food science & technology, novel food products, markets and consumer preferences and much more of the latest of cutting edge technologies to take India on the path of feeding global population.