Punjab Agro-Industries Corporation
(PAIC)
Introduction
Incorporated in 1996,
as a state government undertaking, Punjab Agro-Industries Corporation
today has a strong extension service network and excellent rapport with
the farmers. The corporation has an equity capital base of Rs.466.6
million and employs about 1000 people at different levels in its regional,
district and corporate offices. It is the nodal agency of the state
government for promotion of agro-based industries in Punjab.
Objectives:
To provide agricultural
inputs
Punjab Agro-Industries’ marketing policies are consumer-oriented
handled by hard core professionals. 3 regional offices, 14 district
offices, 90 retail outlets, 800 private dealers, 25 tractor sale-cum-service
centers and 11 petrol pumps cater to the requirement of state farmers
for fertilizer, pesticides, farm machinery, diesel/petrol, custom-hiring
services and other requirements. It has offices and outlets in the remotest
possible corners of the state. Punjab Agro-Industries Corporation’s
annual sales turnover of agricultural inputs is around Rs.2000 million.
To introduce new
technologies
Punjab Agro remains on the look out for innovative and state-of-the-art
technologies for adding value to the state’s is agricultural produce
and residues. Therefore R&D, development and promotional activities
form an essential part of our corporate culture. Examples are:
Development of a new process for fractionation of cellulose, silica,
lignin and hemi-celluloses from rice straw in technical collaboration
with the Institute Armand Frappe, Quebec, Canada.
Sourcing technology for manufacture of xylitol from rice husk/bagasse.
Introducing new agricultural practices for improving the yield and quality
of grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, soybean and sunflower.
Introduction of latest
technologies for inversion of sucrose into Fructose enzymatically; cultivation
and processing of aromatic crops for manufacture of essential oils and
aroma chemicals; processing of fresh eggs for manufacture of frozen
egg liquids and powders; manufacture of honey based cosmetics, health
foods and medicine, cultivation of fresh water prawns. Micro-propagation
of field/forest crops, flowers and ornamentals through tissue culture;
growing and canning of mushrooms; processing of buffalo meat for export
etc.
Punjab Agro has been
instrumental in introducing post harvest management technologies for
increasing shelf-life and transportability of perishable horticultural
crops such as kinnows; grapes, exotic flowers by creating grading and
waxing facilities, pre-cooling centers, refrigerated vans, flower auction
house etc. Avenues are being explored for export of fresh fruits, vegetables
and flowers, and some success has already been achieved in this direction.
To act as an institutional
promoter
As an institutional investor, PAIC invests equity capital as a co-promoter.
It contributes towards the equity of new projects in the Assisted Sector
from 10 to 50% depending upon the size of the project. In the Joint
Sector it contributes from 26 to 50%. Projects in the Assisted Sector
are encouraged by the corporation. The corporation identifies project
ideas through environment-scanning, conducts feasibility studies and
market surveys, determines viable projects and thereafter selects financial/technical
collaborator, depending, inter-alias, on experience and investment capability.
It provides total assistance from selection of site, technology, preparation
of project report; assistance in arrangement of term loans, working
capital from commercial banks and raising funds through public issues.
PAIC actively assists the private Indian and foreign investors in obtaining
all kinds of official sanctions, licenses, permits, and arranging for
other infrastructural facilities for proper, efficient and economic
working of new projects.
Achievements:
PAIC has won the
National Productivity Council Award in recognition of its promotional
work, for the last seven consecutive years.
It has launched 21
successful projects costing about Rs.3,500 million. Among our valued
partners are:
- Pepsi, Inc. USA
- Food Engineering
Services, USA
- Dairy Tek, USA
- Institut Armand-Frappier,
Canada
- Imporio Lader
Wahen, Germany
- Westfalia Separator,
Germany
- Schulle, Germany
- Carmeltech,
Israel
- Chemtec, Israel
- Sandvik Process
System, Italy
- AG Seeds, Australia
- Rice Engineering,
Thailand
- Fletcher Challenge,
New Zealand
- TMCI, United
Kingdom Raisio, Finland
- Dalsem Holland
- Meijer Holland
- IMV, France
PAIC is currently
implementing 15 agro-industrial projects in the areas of agro products
and residues utilization, agro-chemical and food and horticulture at
the total capital cost of about Rs.15,000 million.
Projects
Under Implementation
| Project |
Capacity |
Cost
(Rs in million) |
| Kraft
paper from agro resides |
20 TPD |
48 |
| Invert
Sugar from cane sugar |
5 TPD |
16 |
| Day old
broiler chicks |
16 lakh
P.A. |
19 |
| Solvent
Extraction and refining of vegetable oils |
150 TPD
of oil seeds |
73 |
| Wine from
grapes |
1.5 lakh
liters P.A. |
9 |
| Frozen
egg liquids and powers |
332 TPA
Frozen egg liquids 3156 TPA Egg Powers |
180 |
| Photographic,
pharmaceutical Di-calcium Phosphate and Edible grades of gelatin
from dried animal bones |
6058 TPA |
526 |
| Cellulose,
silica, lignin and protein rich food from paddy straw (pilot plant) |
1 TPD
of paddy straw |
70 |
| Newsprint
and Printing and writing paper from bagasse and eucalyptus wood |
400 TPD |
12000 |
| Sodium
caseinate, cheese, butter and ghee from whole milk |
40,000
liters of milk per day |
44 |
| Hybrid
seeds |
1000 TPA
of oil seeds |
50 |
| Bio-fertilisers
and bio- pesticides |
Bio-fertilisers
300 TPA
Bio-pesticides 70,000 ltrs |
15 |
| Frozen
fruits and vegetables, |
100,000
TPA of fruits and vegetables |
1280 |
| Frozen
semen |
260,000
dozen of bull’s semen per annum |
65 |
| Spice
oils and oleoresins |
2 TPD |
33 |
Another 34 projects costing about
Rs. 9,100 million are at different stages of conceptualisation.
Project
Under Consideration
| Project |
Capacity |
Approximate
cost
(Rs in million) |
| Gluten
and starch from wheat |
4 TPDH
of wheat |
368 |
| Integrated
sugar-cum-indus trial alcohol-cum-panel board cum diketene and acetoacetic
esters |
Sugar-2500
TCD
Industrial
Alcohol-30 KLPD
Panel Board-18 TPD
Diketene, Acetoacetic Esters-3000 TPA |
1500 |
| Medium
Density Fibre Board and Particle Board from cotton stalks eucalyptus
wood and bagasse |
MDFB 300
tpd
Particle Board 100 TPD |
2168 |
| Precipitated
silica from rice husk ash |
3000 TPA |
60 |
| Spinning
mill |
50000
spindles |
1154 |
| Portable
alcohol from damaged wheat |
135 lakh
litres of IMFL per annum |
250 |
| LDPE Wide
Width tubular blown film |
15 TPD |
50 |
| Xylitol
from rice husk/bagasse |
500 TPA |
150 |
| Food grade
caramel |
500 TPA |
20 |
| Industrial
Enzymes |
500 TPA |
80 |
| Potable
alcohol from potatoes |
Extra
neutral alcohol
3 million litres per annum |
120 |
| Potato
flakes and granules |
1 TPH |
200 |
| Beaker’s
yeast |
300 TPA |
20 |
| Polyols
from castor oil |
2000 TPA |
60 |
| Guar gum
from guar seeds |
25 TPD |
5 |
| Edible
grade spirulina algae |
100 TPA |
20 |
| High Fructose
syrup from broken rice |
40 TPD |
250 |
| Edible
grade rice bran oil |
50 TPD |
120 |
| Enriched
feed, butonol, acetone, carbon di-oxide and mixed solvent from maiz |
5000 TPA |
150 |
| Tissue
culture |
1 million
of flowering and ornamental plants per annum |
10 |
| Dehydration
of onions and vegetables |
5000 TPA |
250 |
| Semi-candied
fruit and rice |
Semi-candied
fruits 600 TPA
Rice-1200 TPA |
86 |
| Hybrid
oil seeds, solvent extraction and refining of vegetable oils |
Refined
oil-100 TPD Hybrid Oil seeds-1000 TPA |
500 |
| High Tech
Feed |
30,000
TPA |
51 |
| Fruit
juice concentrates |
10 TPH
of fruit |
258 |
| Hybrid
seeds |
1000 TPA |
21 |
| Potato
starch |
3000 TPA |
300 |
| Micro
sprinkler |
200 Hectare |
60 |
| Potato
seeds |
4000 TPA |
60 |
| Cotton
development |
200 Hectare |
20 |
| Dairy
farm |
3000 liters
per day of milk |
50 |
| Flour
mill |
400 TPD
of flour |
400 |
| Barley
Malt, Malt extract and Beer |
Barely
Malt-10000 TPA
Malt Extract-20000 TPA
Beer-15000 KLPA |
200 |
| Asparagus
growing and canning |
300 TPA |
50 |
| Grain based distillery |
18,000 LPD |
230 |
| Spirulian algae |
250 TPA |
60.50 |
| Production of cellulose,
silica, lignin and protein rich food from rice straw |
300 TPD |
930.20 |
| Precipitated silica
from rice husk ash |
300 TPA |
60.00 |
| Rice Husk Particle
Board |
2500 TPA |
60.00 |
| Bio-fertilizers manufacturing
project |
100 TPA |
5.00 |
| Canned Fruit &
Vegetables |
3000 TPA |
70.00 |
| Production of Natural
Food Colours from Flower/Petals cultivation of exotic vegetables
for export |
3435 MT |
60.00 |
| Integrated project
for production and export of strawberries |
8 MT |
15.00 |
| Dried/Preserved flowers/foliage
plants |
|
15.00 |
| Production of Papain
from Papaya |
35 TPA |
30.00 |
| Pre-cooling and cold
storage of fresh fruits |
50 tonnes |
20.00 |
Punjab
Agro-Industries Corporation & the New Industrial Policy
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The "New Industrial
Policy, 1996’’ notified by the Punjab government recognizes
agro-based industry as a thrust area and provides a special package
of incentives. These are: Investment
incentive at the rate of 30% for fixed capital investment subject to
a maximum of Rs 5 million.
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Sales-tax exemption/deferment
for 10 years subject to maximum of 300% of fixed capital investment.
Generator set subsidy at the rate
of 50% of the cost of captive generator set, subject to a maximum of
Rs.1.5 million. The above incentives are available to the following
categories of agro based industries:
Freeze drying & dehydration
of fresh fruits & vegetables.
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Potable/Industrial Alcohol from
raw materials other than Molasses.
-
Bio-conversion of maize/corn into
organic chemicals/compounds other than starch.
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Products manufactured from agricultural
residues excluding pulp & paper.
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Processing of aromatic & medicinal
plants for extraction of their oils/extracts.
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Tissue culture.
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Integrated poultry projects involving
pureline breeding, grand-parent franchiser breeding & modern hatcheries.
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Processing of eggs for the manufacture
of pastes & powders.
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Mechanized processing, preservation
& packing of fish & other fishery products.
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Refrigeration equipment for cold
storage & for refrigerated vans including units developing alternate
technology for refrigeration like solar energy etc.
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Other hi-tech industries in the
agro-industrial sector involving processing of agricultural produce/residue
available in the state.
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For projects of special significance
for growth of industry, having capital investment of over Rs1000 million,
special packages of incentives shall be provided by an Empowered Committee
headed by the Chief Minister.
For
further details, contact:
Managing Director
Punjab Agro Industries Corporation Ltd.
2 Sec 28 A, Chandigarh
Phone : 91-172-657037, 657472(O) , 91-0172-545900 (R)
Fax : 91-172-40398
