Opportunities
in Agri-Business:
Food
is vital to India’s prosperity. Successful harvesting
of green revolution by Punjab was a step in recognition of
that. The same spirit is now ready to dominate the food industry
of India. Punjab is a land of boundless opportunity for agro
based industry.4.2 million hectare sown area with 186% cropping
intensity and 100% assured irrigation makes Punjab granary
of India. 24.86 million tons of food grain production and
9.85 million live stock and 15.3 million poultry population
Punjab is most suitable for agri business. Apart food grain
large quantity of fruits and vegetables is available for processing.
Fruits and Vegetables production in Punjab:
| Kinnow/Orange |
2,22,456
Mts |
| Mango |
58,380
Mts |
| Grape |
36,666
Mts |
| Pear |
43,780
Mts |
| Peach |
17,745
Mts |
| Lichi |
11,580
Mts |
| Lemon |
4,697
Mts |
| Potato |
1,167,000
Mts |
| Root Crops |
2,63,000
Mts |
| Tomato |
1,75,000
Mts |
| Cabbage |
32,700
Mts |
| Cauliflower |
85,000
Mts |
| Brinjal |
35,000
Mts |
National Productivity
Council of India after a survey found that in Punjab availability
of crop residue is of the order of 31.5 million tons. The
major crop residue are rice straw, wheat straw and cotton
stalk. In addition to that industrial residue/by product such
as rice husk and bagasse is also available. Approximately
2 million tons of these two products are generated every year.
Keeping these things in mind Punjab offers tremendous investment
potential in agro based projects in following area:
processing of major and minor crops
processing of fruits and vegetables
processing of crop and agro industrial residue
Poultry and animal husbandry
Dairy and milk processing
Projects
on offer:
| Sr.No. |
Name
of the Project |
Capacity
|
Estimated
Cost
(Rs. in Crores) |
| 1. |
Integrated
Corn Processing Plant |
To
process initially 300 TGPD and later 500 TPD of corn. |
9500 |
| 2. |
Integrated
paper manufacturing plant |
To
produce high quality coated and uncoated papers, block-board,
plywood, etc. at a capacity of 2,40,0000 MT per annum
of finished products. |
145000 |
| 3. |
Integrated
Oilseeds processing plant |
To
produce top quality edible oil, animal feed, chemicals,
and high value food items with a capacity to mfr. 500
TPD. |
5000 |
| 4. |
Integrated
milk processing |
To
manufacture pasteurized milk, cheese, paneer, khoya,
butter, SMP and ghee. Capacity of the project
is to process 325000 litres of milk per day. |
3500 |
| 5. |
Integrated
cane processing project |
Comprising
2500 TCD cane crushing unit, 350 lac litres per annum
of cane juice based ethanol unit. |
10000 |
| 6. |
Integrated
rice processing project |
Comprising
of 80 TPH rice mill, 9 TPH rice noodles plant, 0.5 TPH
rice crispies plant, 0.5 TPH puffed rice plant, 2.0
TPH flaked rice plant, 1.5 TPH rice flour mill, 1.0
TPH instant rice plant, 0.5 TPH solvent extraction plant,
5.5 TPH oil refining plant, 15 TPH cattle feed
plant and 8.8 MW power generation plant
|
18000
|
| 7. |
Spice
oil and oleoresin extraction unit |
3
TPD initially and going 214 TPD capacity in a year,
10 of its operation. |
3500 |
| 8. |
Integrated
grain based distillery project |
To
produce 20000 liters per day ENA plant, IMFL bottling
unit of 5000-6000 bottles per hour capacity and maturation/ageing
unit for own whisky |
4500 |
| 9. |
Integrated
vegetable processing plant |
To
produce canned/ bottled frozen, dehydrated and pickled
vegetables mainly for export |
3100 |
| 10. |
Wheat
processing project |
To
produce high pasta foods based on durum wheat. |
9000 |
| 11. |
Integrated
potato based alcohol project |
To
produce over 50000 litres per day of vodka. The
project would process about 70000 tonnes pf potatoes
per annum. |
2300 |
| 12. |
Integrated
potato processing facility |
To
manufacture 2 MTs per hour of French fries and 500 kgs
per hour of potato flakes. The facility will process
approximately 20000 tonnes per annum of potatoes. |
2000 |
| 13. |
Integrated
poultry processing project |
To
produce whole chicken, cut portion and value added products
like nuggets, formed boneless product. Captive
feed mill of 10 Ms per hour capacity.
The annual requirement of maize for the
feed mill works out to 15000 tonnes |
3000 |
| 14. |
Setting
up of a malting unit |
20000
MTs per annum capacity and a brewery of 2 lac hecto
litres per annum to manufacture premium quality
malt, malt extracts and beer. |
3500 |
| |
Total |
|
221900 |
|
