The economic prosperity of a developing country like India depends on the forward and backward linkages of the development process. Agro-based industries lead to the creation of both forward and backward linkages on a large scale by maximizing mutual complementarities of agriculture and industry.1 Improvement in agricultural productivity depends on a variety of inputs of industrial origin, including fertilizers, power, tools and techniques, while agriculture, in turn, supplies to the industries not only wage goods but also raw materials.