Rashmi Agri Seed Processing Project
PROJECTREPORT
ON SEED PROCESSING &
RICE MILLING
Table of Contents
Project at a Glance................................................................................................................1
Name & Address of Promoters..............................................................................................2
Project Feasibility Ratio........................................................................................................3
Project Feasibility Graph.......................................................................................................4
Splitup of Expense...........................................................................................................................4
Revenue V/S Expense......................................................................................................................4
CR, QR, ICR & DSCR..........................................................................................................................5
Gross & Net Profit Percentage.........................................................................................................5
Company Profile...................................................................................................................6
Project Profile.......................................................................................................................7
Seed Processing Plant......................................................................................................................7
Introduction......................................................................................................................................7
Advantages of seed processing.........................................................................................................7
Objectives.........................................................................................................................................7
Raw Material Availability..................................................................................................................8
Market Opportunities.......................................................................................................................8
Rice Milling Plant.............................................................................................................................8
Introduction......................................................................................................................................8
Objectives.........................................................................................................................................9
Raw Material Availability..................................................................................................................9
Market Opportunities.......................................................................................................................9
Project Description..............................................................................................................10
Seed Processing Plant....................................................................................................................10
Capacity..........................................................................................................................................10
Seed Processing Process.................................................................................................................10
Rice Milling Plant...........................................................................................................................11
Product and its uses........................................................................................................................11
Capacity..........................................................................................................................................11
Manufacturing Process...................................................................................................................11
Project Cost.........................................................................................................................13
RASHMI AGRI CORPORATION
Project at a Glance
NAME OF UNIT - RASHMI AGRI CORPORATION
4%
9% 6% 1%
1%
4%
76%
Cost of Raw Seed Packing Material for seed & rice Salary of Staff & labours
Repairs and maintenance Power & Utility Rent of godown
Insurance of Machinery & Stock
200
150
100
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
35
45.00% Gross profit Sales Percentage
Current ratio
40.00%
30 Net profit
Quick ratio Sales Percentage
Interest coverage ratio
35.00%
25 Debit Service Coverage Ratio
30.00%
20
25.00%
15
20.00%
10
15.00%
5
10.00%
0
5.00% Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
0.00%
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Company Profile
The Rashmi Agri Corporation is new startup in agriculture sector. It is a partnership
Firm a registered in MSME with registration [Link]-OD-19-0000867. The Firm
is also registered with Ministry of commerce and Industry, Department of commerce,
Directorate General of Foreign Trade for Export and Import with IEC - ABAFR9365G.
The promoter of RAC is Shri Ram Kishan who is competent to run Agri-business. He
did [Link]. & AH (Hounor) followed by [Link]. in Horticulture from Govind Ballabh
Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar in [Link] serving six
month in WIMCO Ltd, he joined National Seeds Corporation Ltd. (NSC) in June, 1984
and worked there till his retirement in June, [Link] worked in different capacity in
NSC and having the rich experience in production, processing, quality control and
The production & marketing division is headed by Shri Samir Kumar Sahoo who is
associated with the farmers since long back and having vast experience in product
development in agriculture sector.
We are also backed by a dedicated technical team to guide the farmers in producing
the superior quality of seed. The seed processing is also supervised by technical
expert in the field. Apart from the seed production and supply of superior quality
seed, we also facilitate to the farmers to get the best & tested other inputs also. Our
approach is based on popularizing the improved varieties of food crops that are
adaptive to the climate change, recommended for general cultivation, and released
by the National Agricultural Research System (NARS).
Project Profile
Seed Processing Plant
Introduction
Seed has been an important agricultural commodity since the first crop plant was
domesticated by pre-historic man. For thousands of years, man cleaned seed of his food
crops by winnowing. This is still an important process, but it is no longer adequate to
supply the kind of seed needed by farmer.
Seed processing is a vital part of the seed production needed to move the improved
genetic materials of the plant breeder into commercial channels for feeding the rapidly
expanding world population. The farmer must get the quality seed that is free from all
undesired materials because farmer’s entire crop depends on it.
Seed can seldom be planted in the condition in which it comes from the growers. In fact,
many seed lots contain weed or crop seed or inert material that make them unfit for sale
without processing. Crop seed also frequently have stems, awns, clusters or other
structures, which prevent from flowing through the drill freely. Seed processing is that
segment of the seed industry responsible for upgrading seed, improving planting
condition of seed, and applying chemical protectants to the seed.
Facilitate uniform marketing by providing storage from harvest time until the seed is
needed for planting.
Objectives
The Government has accorded high priority to the upliftment of rural economy through
the development of agricultural sector and various schemes are being implemented by the
Government to increase the income of the farmers. The Seed being vital input to
agriculture, continuous efforts are being made to ensure availability of quality seeds to
farmers in order to sustain the agricultural development. In the present situation the
demand of quality seeds is so high that the government agency alone can’t meet the
demand of quality seeds, which would be required to fill by the private seed producers. In
view of above, the project has been formulated with the objective to produce quality seed
of paddy through scientific methods and adopting appropriate processing through
establishment of seed processing plant.
Market Opportunities
There is huge demand of certified seed as the Govt. agencies are not able to fulfill the
requirement of certified seed. Setting up seed processing plant will allow farmers to
engage in seed production & there by fetch more profits than the production of grain. The
seed produced and processed by the company will be made available to the farmers at
cheaper rate. The existing infrastructure for seed processing is not enough to meet current
and future demand. The new entrants have good scope to start this business
The rice available in the market is of two qualities i.e. raw and parboiled. The raw rice is
obtained by simply milling the raw paddy, while parboiled variety is the one in which
the paddy is first partly boiled and dried before milling. Par boiled rice is preferred in
some parts of the country such as Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamilnadu, Kerala and
some parts of Bihar etc. In other state raw rice is consumed.
The process of milling for both is same except the boiling part of paddy. The milling
process provides whole rice as the main product and Husk, Bran and Broken rice as Bye
products. Husk is sold in the market as a fuel, Bran for extraction of Oil and broken rice is
consumed as a cheaper variety of rice.
In India, rice milling business has a turnover of more than Rs.25, 500 crore per annum.
Among other states, West Bengal, Punjab, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh etc. also produce large
quantities of rice.
Objectives
The commercial rice milling will have a following objective
• Production of edible rice free of husks, stones and other foreign material
• Minimization of grain breakage and maximization of whole rice recovery
Market Opportunities
Setting up rice mill will allow farmers to engage in value addition & more profits. Rice bran is a
byproduct obtained during rice milling process, which is a very good source of edible oil.
Rice is in great demand both in house hold consumption and also in Hotels, restaurant,
canteens, etc. A major share of crop production can easily be sold to FCI or other
procurement agency at MSP.
Project Description
Seed Processing Plant
Capacity
The capacity of this model is considered as 20 Qtls. (2.00 MT) per hour on wheat basis
which will be reduced to 70% in case of Paddy and 14 qtls of Paddy may be processed per
hour. The plant will operate for 07 hours per day in one shift (08 hrs minus 01 hr for lunch
etc.). Thus, in a day about 100 qtls of Paddy will be processed.
capacity of the seed cleaner which is the basic machine in the seed processing plant. Other
machines, which work on the principle of separating the material, based on difference in
characteristics of good seed and impurities are included in the plant. Capacity of such
machines are kept matching with that of cleaner to have effective utilization.
Brief descriptions of the processing machines used in a seed processing plant are given
hereunder.
Cleaner:-The air screen cleaner is the basic machine in almost all seed processing plants.
A common air screen cleaner for processing seed uses two air blasts and two screens. The
first air system removes dust and light chaff before the seed reaches the first screen. The
first screen allows the good seed to drop onto the second screen. The large foreign
material rides over the first screen and is discarded. The second screen is a grading
screen.
Specific gravity separator: - Seed of same size and general shape can often be separated
because they differ in specific gravity. This difference is very useful in removing light
immature seed or heavy sand and rocks to improve the purity and germination of crop
seed.
Indented cylinder: - Seed of the same width and thickness can be separated by taking
advantages of difference of length. Indented cylinder can do very precise separation by
using length difference. The indented cylinder separator is a rotating almost horizontal
cylinder with a movable horizontal separating through mounted inside it. Thousand of half
round indents line are inside surface of indented cylinder.
Elevator:- Single leg bucket elevator consisting of receiving hopper, boot, bucket, belt,
boot pulley, leg, head pulley, motor, drive and discharge spout will be used for conveying
seed from one machine to another machine. It will lift the seed from the ground vertically
upward and discharge it from top to the different machines. This type of elevating
machines requires less power and floor area.
Other Machines: - Weighing, Packing, conveyor Belt and stitching machine/Bag closer are
required.
Capacity
The rice mill works on economies of scale model. The decision about the capacity of rice
milling plant depends upon number of factors like market demand, availability of
manpower etc. The capacity of this model is considered as 10 Qtls. (1.00 MT) per hour.
The plant will operate for 07 hours per day in one shift (08 hrs minus 01 hr for lunch etc.).
Thus, in a day 70 qtls of Paddy will be milled and a quantity of 43.40 qtls (62% of quantity
milled) of head rice 4.90 broken rice (7% of quantity milled) will be produced.
Manufacturing Process
Generally three types of methods are used for milling of paddy rice viz. one step, two step
and multi stage process. In modern commercial mill, the multi stage process is adopted.
Efficiency of milling depends on the variety of paddy, quality of equipment, operator skill
etc. Multi stage process of rice milling involves following steps:
Cleaning: -Removal of foreign materials like straw, weed seeds, soil, etc. from paddy prior
to milling.
Destoning:- Removing small stones from the paddy prior to milling process. It is done by
using the destoner.
Whitening or Polishing: - The white rice is obtained from brown rice using the process of
abrasion or friction between two surfaces.
Separation: - Separation of rice from broken rice is carried out using different types of
graders and separator.
Bagging: - The milled rice is packed in different quantity according to the requirement
Seed Grader
[Link]
De-Stoner
Paddy Husker/Huller
Rice whitener/Polisher
Rice Grader
Project Cost
Sl. No Item Amount
1 Seed Processing & Rice Milling Machinery 28,65,970
2 Preliminary & Pre-operative expenses 1,25,000
3 Other miscellaneous assets 2,43,400
4 Contingency 1,55,468
5 Working Capital 30,88,556
Total 64,78,394
The meager amount will be received by selling of screen rejection and husk of
paddy which has not been considered as revenue from operation.
Annual Expenses
Application of Fund
Sl. No Item Amount
1 Seed Processing & Rice Milling Machinery 2,865,970.00
2 Preliminary & Pre-operative expenses 125,000.00
3 Other miscellaneous assets 243,400.00
4 Contingency 155,468.00
Total Investment 3,389,838.00
Total Subsidy 0.00
Net Investment 3,389,838.00
Means of Finance
Sl. No Item Amount
1 Term Loan 2,542,378.50
2 Working capital Loan 2,316,417.00
3 Total loan 4,858,795.50
4 Term Loan contribution 847,459.50
5 Working capital contribution 772,139.00
Profitability Statement
All figures are in lakhs
Current asset
Interest on TL 0 2.92 2.60 2.25 1.85 1.40 0.89 0.32
Interest on
WC 0 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24 3.24
Income Tax 0 7.77 9.24 12.48 16.10 20.14 24.66 32.14
Decrease in
Term loan 2.48 2.80 3.15 3.55 4.00 4.51 4.93
Drawing 0 3.00 5.00 3.00 6.00 7.00
Total Cash
Outflow 33.90 47.66 24.29 25.61 32.30 37.42 35.02 40.63
Opening
balance 0 0 22.54 38.69 63.44 92.71 129.49 182.89
Net Cash
flow 0 22.54 16.15 24.75 29.27 36.78 53.40 71.69
Closing
balance 0 22.54 38.69 63.44 92.71 129.49 182.89 254.58
All figures are in lakhs
Balance sheet
All figures are in lakhs
Pre
operative
Liability period Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
A. Share
holders’ funds
8.47 16.20 16.20 16.20 16.20 16.20 16.20 16.20
Capital
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Subsidy
Reserve & 0 15.14 31.70 57.83 89.40 129.40 186.95 261.94
Surplus
[Link] current
Liabilities
25.42 22.94 20.14 16.99 13.44 9.44 4.93 0
Term loan
[Link]
Liabilities
Working capital 0 23.16 23.16 23.16 23.16 23.16 23.16 23.16
loan
Account 2.94 3.09 3.24 3.41 3.58 3.76 3.76
payable
33.90 80.38 94.29 117.42 145.60 181.77 234.99 305.05
Total Liability
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Asset
[Link] current
Assets
33.90 29.60 25.95 22.84 20.20 17.96 16.05 14.43
Fixed Assets
B. Current
Assets
0 22.34 23.46 24.63 25.86 27.16 28.52 28.52
Inventory
Trade 0 5.90 6.19 6.50 6.83 7.17 7.53 7.53
receivables
Cash and cash 0 22.54 38.69 63.44 92.71 129.49 182.89 254.58
equivalence
33.90 80.38 94.29 117.42 145.60 181.77 234.99 305.05
Total Asset
Balanc
Instalmen Balance at Principa Total
Interest e at
t No. beginning l paid Paid
end
1 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
2 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
3 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
4 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
5 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
6 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
7 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
8 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
9 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
10 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
11 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
12 25.42 0.25 0 0.25 25.42
13 25.42 0.25 0.24 0.50 25.18
14 25.18 0.25 0.25 0.50 24.93
15 24.93 0.25 0.25 0.50 24.68
16 24.68 0.25 0.25 0.50 24.43
17 24.43 0.24 0.25 0.50 24.18
18 24.18 0.24 0.26 0.50 23.93
19 23.93 0.24 0.26 0.50 23.67
20 23.67 0.24 0.26 0.50 23.41
21 23.41 0.23 0.26 0.50 23.15
22 23.15 0.23 0.27 0.50 22.88
23 22.88 0.23 0.27 0.50 22.61
24 22.61 0.23 0.27 0.50 22.34
25 22.34 0.22 0.27 0.50 22.07
26 22.07 0.22 0.28 0.50 21.79
27 21.79 0.22 0.28 0.50 21.51
28 21.51 0.22 0.28 0.50 21.23
29 21.23 0.21 0.28 0.50 20.95
30 20.95 0.21 0.29 0.50 20.66
31 20.66 0.21 0.29 0.50 20.37
32 20.37 0.20 0.29 0.50 20.07
33 20.07 0.20 0.30 0.50 19.78
34 19.78 0.20 0.30 0.50 19.48
35 19.48 0.19 0.30 0.50 19.18
36 19.18 0.19 0.31 0.50 18.87
Depreciation
Particulars Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Seed Processing & Rice
Milling Machinery 28.66 24.36 20.71 17.60 14.96 12.72 10.81
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Assumption
The entire projection is based on the assumption that the revenue from the
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sale of Paddy seed and Rice will be as under. The sale value has been calculated
at prevailing market price and 5% increased has been considered for
subsequent year.
The total expenditure to be incurred in the business during projection year will be
as follows. An increase of 5% has also been taken in to consideration while making
the projection for expenditure.
The depreciation has been calculated at the rate of 15% annually on the depreciated
cost of the plant machinery.
The Plant will run as per production target. Accordingly, seed processing plant will
be in operation for 90 days and rice milling will run for 300 days in a year.
Value of raw materials & utility charges as per the current market conditions.
Interest on term loan and working capital loan has been calculated @ 12% and 14%
respectively.
Salary and wages rate are taken as per the current market scenario.
Operation cycle of 90 days at different stages has been taken for calculation of
working capital.
All other assumptions are based on the of the promoter and deep study on the working of
similar model
Conclusion
The project as a whole describes the scope and viability of the Agriculture industry and
mainly of the financial, technical and its market potential. The project guarantee sufficient
fund to repay the loan and also give a good return on capital investment. When analyzing
the social- economic impact, this project is able to generate an employment of 15 and
above. It will cater the demand of Agriculture and thus helps the other business entities to
increase the production and service which provide service and support to this industry.
This will also generate employment and livelihood to the people. So in all ways, we can
conclude the project is technically and socially viable and commercially sound too.
When we take a close look at the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), the avg: DSCR is
8.46: 1, which is at a higher proposition and proposes a stable venture
The Profit and Loss shows a steady growth in profit throughout the year and the firm has a
higher Current Ratio (average) of 5.41, this shows the current assets and current liabilities
are managed & balanced well. The other financial indicator like Net Present Value, Internal
Rate of Return, Average Rate of Return, Profitability Index are at higher proposition which
shows that project is very sound in all respect and can be financed.









