One of India's proudest accomplishments has been achieving self-sufficiency in food production and that the country produces a wide variety of agricultural products at prices that are at or below world values in most cases-states of the office of the agriculture (USDA). The country's food industry's sales turnover at the end of the year 2000 was at US$ 31 billion. India's food processing industry covers fruit and vegetables (onions, garlic, tomatoes, potatoes, peas; pineapples, bananas, apples, papaya, grapes and oranges); meat and poultry; milk and milk products, alcoholic beverages, fisheries (prawns, shrimps, tuna, cuttlefish), plantation, grain processing and other consumer product groups like confectionery, chocolates and cocoa products, soya-based products, mineral water, high protein foods and other products