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AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PROCESSING OF MANGO FRUITS IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH - A CASE STUDY OF SRI VARSHA FOOD PRODUCTS INDIA LTD

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Title AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF PROCESSING OF MANGO FRUITS IN CHITTOOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH - A CASE STUDY OF SRI VARSHA FOOD PRODUCTS INDIA LTD
 
Creator ARUN KUMAR, K
 
Contributor SUBBA REDDY
 
Subject costs, mangoes, fruits, productivity, capital, exports, manpower, economics, variable costs, fixed costs
 
Description The project entitled “An economic study of processing of mango fruits in
Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh - A case study of Sri Varsha food products India
Ltd.,” was taken up with the following objectives.
1) To study and analyze the cost and returns of processing of mango fruits per tonne
product.
2) To evaluate the performance of Sri Varsha foods products through SWOT
Analysis.
3) To identify the problems and suggest suitable remedies for efficient functioning of
factory.
The study pertaining to the evaluation performance of Sri Varsha food products
India Ltd was carried out in S.N. Puram village of Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh.
Hence all the required data were collected from the records maintained by the factory.
Details regarding the processing of mango fruits per tonne of processed product
were obtained from the records the factory. Relevant processing data such as problems
and marketing aspects were collected randomly from 30 traders and 90 farmers from
eight villages who are involved in such activities. Total costs include fixed costs and
variable costs per tonne of mango processed products. SWOT analysis which measures
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats faced by the factory were collected
from the factory records and analyzed. Problems were identified and finally solutions to
the problems were suggested.
The major findings of the study are
1. Break even analysis at the existing level indicated that processing unit registered
Break Even Output (BEO) 2040.9 tonnes of pulp.
2. The net returns were found to be with Rs.4951.6 per tonne of pulp.
3. Cost of processing per tonne of mango pulp amounted to Rs.49965.5 for this unit.
4. Operating ratio and gross ratio were higher for Sri Varsha mango processing unit
with 0.94 and 0.96.
5. Current ratio and current liability ratio were higher for this processing unit 2.04 and
0.43, whereas working ratio was 2.46. If the ratio is greater than one, it could be
presumed that the factory had sufficient current assets to meet current obligations. A
current ratio of roughly two was considered to be a satisfactory figure.
6. Net capital ratio and equity value ratio were 2.63 and 0.60 respectively for this unit,
whereas debt equity ratio was 0.61.
7. Capital per unit of gross income was 0.44, whereas rate of capital turnover was 124.7
and Input-output ratio was 1:1.07.
8. BEO was lower for the processing unit, whereas margin of safety was higher for this
unit.
9. Sri Varsha food processing was also provided with good infrastructure facilities.
10. The location was well suited to the factory for the availability of water, for
processing and accessibility.
Suggestions made to the company
At present Sri Varsha food products India Ltd., Chittoor District was using
Totapuri mango to make pulp and other beverages for meeting the demand in domestic
and export markets. Hence, in this context the other popular varieties of export viz.,
Alphanso from Maharashtra and Banganapalli from Krishna district were made popular
with all the technical support encouraging state and central government policies on food
related industries.
At present in mango production pests (stone weevil and fruit fly) and diseases
(anthracnose) were increasing and posing lot of problems both in production and
marketing. Hence, IPM technology should be geared up adequately to stop these
problems with adequate staff and services of AEZ.
There is need to reduce post harvest losses by using grading and standardization
techniques and use of plastic crates in transportation and storage.
There is a need to:
Improve the linkages between farmers and processing units, reduce the handling
losses which nearly constitute to 15 percent, improve the availability of research by the
factory, improve the factory with good testing and research facilities, develop the
technical knowledge of local manpower, reduce the losses of recovery of pulp from the
slice, lack of required number of perforated plastic crates to facilitate efficient storage
of raw fruits and minimizes fruit spoilage and adequate investment is required to
construct durable storage structures in place of thatched sheds.
 
Date 2016-06-24T14:01:44Z
2016-06-24T14:01:44Z
2010
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67953
 
Language en
 
Relation D8721;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY