1 | Name Of Cluster | Koraput Rice Milling |
2 | Place | Jeypore, Borigumma, Kotpad and Kundra Regions of Ganjam |
3 | District | Koraput |
4 | State | Orissa |
5 | No of firms (by type) | 63 Micro Firms |
6 | No. of workers | 3500 Direct and 8000 indirect |
7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | 3000 Millions |
8 | Associations in cluster | The Koraput Rice mill association |
9 | Major products | Rice Husk & Bran as by products |
10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
NCMSL, PPC |
11 | Major markets | Within country Orissa, AP, West Bengal Export No Visible Exports |
12 | Major problems/prospects | Improving the yield of whole rice, through minimisation of broken rice Quality improvement of rice to achieve better national and export market share. Improvement of recovery and gainful utilisation of byproducts Economic utilisation of rice husk ash (Boiler Ash) Creation of common refining center& testing facility for rice bran and other byproducts Reduction of energy consumption Technical skill development of man power Creation of an organised paddy procurement system to stabilise the cost of paddy in open market |
13 | Data source and updated on | DSR by APITCO for DC-MSME (Jan 2010) |