中文Anuga Select India 2026, the 19th edition, and Anuga FoodTec India 2026, the 20th edition, opened on 29 September 2026 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, running through 1 October. The co-located exhibitions brought together food and beverage manufacturers, suppliers, importers, exporters, distributors, retailers, HoReCa professionals, technology providers and industry decision-makers from India and international markets, organised by Koelnmesse.
The events featured more than 1,100 exhibitors from 43 countries, with more than 45,000 trade visitors expected. Product categories spanned Agrifoods, Dairy, Drinks and Hot Beverages, Fine Foods, Food Service, Organic, and Sweets and Snacks, alongside technologies and solutions for food processing, packaging, automation, digitalisation, intralogistics and supply-chain logistics. Supported by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), with the European Union as Official Partner Region, the show was positioned as a marketplace connecting Indian enterprises with global buyers, technology providers and investors.
The inauguration drew senior figures including Martina Englhardt-Kopf, parliamentary state secretary at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity; Silvio Erkens, state secretary for agriculture, fisheries, food security and nature for the Netherlands; and Devesh Deval, IAS, joint secretary at MoFPI. Koelnmesse’s Sameer Mithia and Milind Dixit were also present.
Deval framed India’s food market as worth an estimated USD 550-600 billion, growing at a healthy 6-7 percent CAGR on the back of economic growth and urbanisation. He stressed that food processing is strategically important because it creates greater value for farmers, attracts investment and is the second-highest employment creator in manufacturing, accounting for nearly 8 percent of manufacturing gross value added. The government’s focus, he said, is to raise processing levels across all 16 broad sub-sectors.
Protein drew specific attention given India’s large vegetarian population. At NIFTEM, Kundli, the Ministry is setting up a Centre of Excellence on pea protein with Canadian partners to develop extracts and isolates, with plant-based protein expected to be a major growth area. India’s startup ecosystem, with more than 200,000 startups, was cited as a further engine for food manufacturing and innovation.
The EU-India relationship was a recurring theme. Englhardt-Kopf noted that the conclusion of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement creates a market of around two billion people and liberalises trade covering 99.3 percent of EU and 96.6 percent of India’s trade value, while Erkens highlighted decades of Indo-Dutch agricultural cooperation. The FTA is expected to be signed before the end of 2026 and enter into force around mid-2027.
Trade data underlined the opportunity. Tarun Bajaj of APEDA said India exported USD 53 billion of agricultural and processed food products in 2025-26, placing it among the top ten exporters globally, with value-added processed products now near 30 percent of that total and a five-year goal to double exports. Dixit noted the sector reached about USD 382 billion in FY2025 and is projected to approach USD 689 billion by FY2034.
For the packaging and processing supply chain, the co-located format is the headline. Anuga FoodTec sits beside Anuga Select precisely because machinery, materials and automation are now inseparable from food strategy. Suppliers of sustainable packaging, filling, coding and intralogistics gained a concentrated audience of Indian and international buyers ready to invest in capacity.
The event closed having reinforced Mumbai’s position as the gateway for a food economy that is scaling fast, formalising quickly and integrating with global value chains. For exhibitors, the 1,100-strong, 43-country turnout was less a trade show statistic than a signal that India’s processing boom is now a genuinely international marketplace.
The co-located model is now Koelnmesse’s template for high-growth markets, pairing the buyer audience of a food show with the capital-equipment audience of a technology show so that one trip serves both sourcing and investment decisions. For packaging and processing suppliers, that combination is gold: they meet ingredient buyers and machinery buyers in the same hall, and they can illustrate sustainability claims with actual equipment rather than slides. India’s numbers make the format compelling. A food market of USD 550-600 billion growing at 6-7 percent, with processing targeted to rise from about USD 382 billion in FY2025 toward USD 689 billion by FY2034, implies years of capacity investment in filling, coding, flexible and rigid packaging, automation and cold chain. The EU-India Free Trade Agreement, expected to be signed before the end of 2026, lowers tariffs across 99 percent of bilateral trade value and pulls European technology providers deeper into the Indian market. Anuga Select India therefore functions less as a trade show than as a referendum on India’s food economy, and the 1,100-exhibitor, 43-country turnout is a strong vote for continued expansion. The presence of dedicated country halls and government bodies from both sides also de-risks market entry for smaller exporters, giving them a staged pathway into a market that is large, fast-moving and still learning how to absorb imported technology at scale.
The 45,000-visitor expectation underlines how seriously the Indian market now takes its own food-processing ambitions, and how eagerly global suppliers want a foothold in a market projected to nearly double within a decade. Anuga Select India has become the place where that intent converts into orders, trials and partnerships.
