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Punjab- Land of Boudless Oppurtunities:
Enterprise and endeavor, these two words symbolize the essential
spirit of the People of Punjab. Combined with these qualities
its average growth rate of 10 %, 58 % Literacy rate and
highest per capita income in country makes it a land of
boundless opportunity. Today Punjab offers distinct advantage
for investment and industry. The recent liberalization of the
Indian economy, has pitch forked Punjab in to the global business
mainstream. Heralding this change are more and more entrepreneurs,
industrialists and investors with vision, from across the globe.
Punjab is determined to achieve an annual industrial rate of
growth of 12 per cent during the ‘90s. Going by the availability
of raw materials and the thrust
areas identified by the government, investment opportunities
are in the
following areas:
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Processing of
major and minor crops |
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Industries based
on agricultural waste/ residue (wheat/ paddy straw, paddy
husk) |
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Processing of
fruits and vegetables |
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Dairy or Poultry
based units |
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Leather and
Sports Goods. |
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Meat processing |
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Textiles |
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Electronics &
Telecommunications |
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Information
Technology |
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Infrastructure
Modernization |
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on and
Development |
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Automobiles and
Farm machinery |
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Engineering
industries related to agriculture & food processing, including
ancillary units |
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Chemical
industries, including Drugs and Pharmaceuticals |
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Export oriented
units |
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Opportunities in Agri-Business:
Food is vital to
India’s prosperity. Successful harvesting of green revolution
by Punjab was a step in recognition of that. The same spirit
is now ready to dominate the food industry of India. Punjab is
a land of boundless opportunity for agro based industry.4.2
million hectare sown area with 186% cropping intensity and
100% assured irrigation makes Punjab granary of India. 24.86
million tons of food grain production and 9.85 million live
stock and 15.3 million poultry population Punjab is most
suitable for agri business. Apart food grain large quantity of
fruits and vegetables is available for processing.
Fruits and Vegetables production in Punjab:
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Kinnow/Orange |
2,22,456
Mts |
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Mango
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58,380 Mts |
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Grape
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36,666 Mts
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Pear
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43,780 Mts |
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Peach
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17,745 Mts |
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Lichi
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11,580 Mts |
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Lemon
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4,697 Mts |
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Potato
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1,167,000
Mts |
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Root Crops
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2,63,000
Mts |
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Tomato
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1,75,000
Mts |
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Cabbage
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32,700 Mts |
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Cauliflower
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85,000 Mts |
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Brinjal
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35,000 Mts |
National
Productivity Council of India after a survey found that in
Punjab availability of crop residue is of the order of 31.5
million tons. The major crop residue are rice straw, wheat
straw and cotton stalk. In addition to that industrial
residue/by product such as rice husk and bagasse is also
available. Approximately 2 million tons of these two products
are generated every year.
Keeping these things in mind Punjab offers tremendous
investment potential in agro based projects in following area:
processing
of major and minor crops
processing
of fruits and vegetables
processing
of crop and agro industrial residue
Poultry
and animal husbandry
Dairy and
milk processing
Projects
on offer:
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Sr.No. |
Name of the Project
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Capacity |
Estimated Cost
(Rs. in Crores) |
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1. |
Integrated Corn Processing Plant
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To
process initially 300 TGPD and later 500 TPD of corn.
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9500 |
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Integrated paper manufacturing plant
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To produce
high quality coated and uncoated papers, block-board,
plywood, etc. at a capacity of 2,40,0000 MT per annum of
finished products.
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145000 |
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3. |
Integrated Oilseeds processing plant
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To
produce top quality edible oil, animal feed,
chemicals, and high value food items with a capacity
to mfr. 500 TPD.
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5000 |
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Integrated milk processing
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To
manufacture pasteurized milk, cheese, paneer, khoya,
butter, SMP and ghee. Capacity of the project is to
process 325000 litres of milk per day.
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3500 |
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5. |
Integrated cane processing project
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Comprising 2500 TCD cane crushing unit, 350 lac litres
per annum of cane juice based ethanol unit.
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10000 |
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Integrated rice processing project
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Comprising of 80 TPH rice mill, 9 TPH rice noodles
plant, 0.5 TPH rice crispies plant, 0.5 TPH puffed
rice plant, 2.0 TPH flaked rice plant, 1.5 TPH rice
flour mill, 1.0 TPH instant rice plant, 0.5 TPH
solvent extraction plant, 5.5 TPH oil refining plant,
15 TPH cattle feed plant and 8.8 MW power generation
plant
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18000
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7. |
Spice oil
and oleoresin extraction unit
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3 TPD
initially and going 214 TPD capacity in a year, 10 of
its operation.
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3500 |
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Integrated grain based distillery project
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To
produce 20000 liters per day ENA plant, IMFL bottling
unit of 5000-6000 bottles per hour capacity and
maturation/ageing unit for own whisky
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4500 |
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Integrated vegetable processing plant
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To
produce canned/ bottled frozen, dehydrated and pickled
vegetables mainly for export
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3100 |
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10. |
Wheat
processing project
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To
produce high pasta foods based on durum wheat.
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9000 |
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11. |
Integrated potato based alcohol project
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To
produce over 50000 litres per day of vodka. The
project would process about 70000 tonnes pf potatoes
per annum.
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2300 |
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12. |
Integrated potato processing facility
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To
manufacture 2 MTs per hour of French fries and 500 kgs
per hour of potato flakes. The facility will process
approximately 20000 tonnes per annum of potatoes.
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2000 |
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13. |
Integrated poultry processing project
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To
produce whole chicken, cut portion and value added
products like nuggets, formed boneless product.
Captive feed mill of 10 Ms per hour capacity. The
annual requirement of maize for the feed mill works
out to 15000 tonnes
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3000 |
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14. |
Setting
up of a malting unit
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20000 MTs
per annum capacity and a brewery of 2 lac hecto litres
per annum to manufacture premium quality malt, malt
extracts and beer.
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3500 |
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Total |
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221900 |
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Electronics & IT Industry:
With 21st century just round the corner
Importance of electronics and computer industry can’t be
overemphasized. Punjab Government realized it quite early
and targeted this sector through their policy planning. A
string of training and testing institutions in this field
was established in collaboration with Government of India.
Government of Punjab has decided to give special package of
incentive to this sector of Industry. For assisting industry
in this sector Punjab Government established
Punjab
Infotech
. In 1976
Punjab Infotech (Earlier ECP) began groundwork for future
development by setting up an Electronics Township of Punjab
(ELTOP) in phase VIII of Mohali near Chandigarh. Spread over
200 acres ELTOP has become one of the largest conglomerates
of electronics and communication industries in India.
An Earth Station has been set up at Mohali providing
International data transfer facility to the Software units
in this area.
As part of
expansion program for software exports Government of India has
approved setting up a Information Technology Park at Mohali.
ITP will have:
Satellite
Earth Station to provide high bandwidth international
connectivity
Software
Technology Park
Electronics Hardware Technology Park
Indian
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Developed
plots and sites for IT/Electronics units |
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