The Food Processing Industry in Sri Lanka is one of the emerging and lucrative industries in terms of production, consumption, export and growth prospects. Earlier, food processing was largely confined to food preservation, packaging and transportation, which mainly involved salting, curdling, drying, pickling, etc. However, over the years, with emerging new markets and technologies, the sector has widened its scope. It has started producing many new items like ready-to-eat food, beverages, processed and frozen fruit and vegetable products, marine and meat products, etc. It also includes the establishment of post-harvest infrastructure for processing various food items, like cold storage facilities and packaging centres.