Development of a Self-reliant Agro-Food Industry Impact of Technology Imports Baldev Singh INDIA is a country of a great degree of social, economic and cultural diversity. While discussing the agro-food industry in India and the technological requirements thereof, the socio-economic status of different sections of the population, food habits of the people in different states, traditional methods and practices of processing and preservation of food materials, have to be kept in view. Account has also to be taken of the social transformation taking place under the impact of modern systems of communication and media such as, newspapers, radio and television services; international travel and influence of the life-style and habitat of people in the advanced industrialised countries. India lives in many centuries