Cluster Profile
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)