Cluster Profile
| 1 | Name Of Cluster | Warangal Rice Mill |
| 2 | Place | Within 20 Kms radius of The cluster is spread across Khamam, Nakkalpally Road, Rajupet, IDA+ Rampur, Gorrekunta |
| 3 | District | Warangal |
| 4 | State | Andhra Pradesh |
| 5 | No of firms (by type) | Micro Firms : 50 Small Firms: 50, Medium Firms : 25 (Paraboiled) Total : 125 |
| 6 | No. of workers | 5000 direct and 4000 indirect |
| 7 | Turnover(Rs in Million's) | Domestic Rs. 3000 million |
| 8 | Associations in cluster | 1. Warangal District Rice Millers Welfare Association, Contact Person R. Rajgopal Rao, Cell No: 09390345493 |
| 9 | Major products | Boiled Rice, Fine Rice, Brokens |
| 10 | Specific and relevant technical institutions (R&D, Testing Lab accredited) |
Agricultural & Processed Foods Export Development Authority (APEDA) Hyderabad Central Food Technology Research Institute, Mysore |
| 11 | Major markets | Within country Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka Besides AP Export Mainly to Gulf, Bangladesh, Singapore and Thailand |
| 12 | Major problems/prospects | Problems:
The Food Corporation of India has been taking only 50 per cent of the rice production as levy and millers are left with the rest for sale in the open market. Their supplies have been restricted more or less to the local market where the profit margins had come down considerably. Lack of awareness of the Energy efficient technologies, High usage of husk leading to pollution problems Inadequate godown facilties leading damage of rice Poor linkages with Technical institutions |
| 13 | Data source and updated on | Based on www.energymanagertraining.com/bee/SMEProgramme/Warangal.pdf |