Besan Plant
Besan Plant
BESAN PLANT
1. INTRODUCTION
Bengal gram is called Chickpea or Gram (Cicer aritinum L.) in South Asia and Garbanzo bean in
most of the developed world. Bengal gram is a major pulse crop in India, widely grown for
centuries and accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total pulse production.
BESAN is a product obtained by grinding, dried and decuticled Bengal Gram (L: Cicer arietinum).
Besan is a bengal gram flour widely consumed in India. It is yellowish in colour and possess
characteristic bengal gram taste and smell. Khesaru dal and other colouring matter shall not be
added to true besan flour.
The entrepreneur must be aware of sourcing and trading of Bengal gram whole and well versed
with markets of besan for retail and bulk selling in India and abroad. The manufacturing process
can be understood easily after some runs but marketing skill is must to sale besan in a
competitive markets in India and abroad.
4. INDUSTRY OUTLOOK/TREND
Indian snacks and namkeen industry is growing at the rate of 10% per annum with increase
in urbanization, changing life style and growth in per capita income. Besan is rich in nutrition
and it is very common in Indian food preparations. The growth in demand is also due to
increase in population and rising exports of products made from besan.
India is the major growing country of the world, accounting for 61.65 percent of the total world
area under Bengal gram during 2002 and 68.13 percent of the total world production. Bengal
gram is widely appreciated as health food. It is a protein-rich supplement to cereal-based diets,
especially to the poor in developing countries, where people are vegetarians or cannot afford
animal protein. The pulse proteins are rich in lysine and have low sulfur containing amino acids.
It offers the most practical means of eradicating protein malnutrition among vegetarian children
and nursing mothers. Bengal gram has a very important role in human diet in our country.
India has exported about 12,000 tons of besan worth Rs. 7800 lakhs in year 2015-16 (APEDA)
mainly to USA, UK, Australia, Kuwait, Canada, New Zealand, UAE, Singapore, Saudi Arabia,
Oman and other countries.
Whole bengal gram delivered at the site are first physically cleaned and separated from
stone, dust, dirt and other foreign material. Cleaned material is conveyed into soaking-cum-
drying bins where it is conditioned with little water and dried by blowing air to loosen its outer
skin for separation. This process take about four hours’ time. It is then subjected for spilting
outer skin (husk) in a dal mill. The spilt dal is again moisturized and conditioned for four hours.
It is then subjected to final milling to extract maximum percentage of flour the final milling is
carried out in emery roller machines. Thus obtained flour is further pass through battery of
sieving machines to obtained super fine grade and fine grade material. The husk separated is
collected from other chutes, whereas other sieved coarse material again feed-back for milling
into roller machine. Finally, besan is packed directly in gunny bags, poly-line gunny bags for
bulk selling and in laminated pouches or poly-bags for retail selling.
8. MANPOWER REQUIREMENT:
Requirement of Manpower
The proposed unit will have the production capacity of 8100MT per year of besan. The unit cost of
power is taken at Rs. 8. The depreciation on building is taken at the rate of 5% whereas for plant
and machinery it is at 10%.
The average sales price of Besan is taken at the rate of Rs. 83,000 per MT for proposed project.
15. BREAKEVEN ANALYSIS:
There is statutory requirement of FSSAI license for setting up of food processing industry. Moreover,
MSME & GST registration, IEC Code for Export of end products and local authority clearance may
be required for Shops and Establishment, for Fire and Safety requirement and registration for ESI,
PF and Labour laws may be required if applicable. Entrepreneur may contact State Pollution Control
Board where ever it is applicable.
For forward integration entrepreneur may think of manufacturing namkeen and snack products for
Indian market. However there is little scope for backward integration.
For food processing industry training and short term courses are available at Indian Institute of Food
Processing Technology, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu and Central Food Technological Institute, Mysore.
Udyamimitra portal ( link : www.udyamimitra.in ) can also be accessed for handholding services
viz. application filling / project report preparation, EDP, financial Training, Skill
Development, mentoring etc.
Entrepreneurship program helps to run business successfully is also available from Institutes like
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) and its affiliates all over India.
Disclaimer:
Only few machine manufacturers are mentioned in the profile, although many machine
manufacturers are available in the market. The addresses given for machinery manufacturers have
been taken from reliable sources, to the best of knowledge and contacts. However, no responsibility
is admitted, in case any inadvertent error or incorrectness is noticed therein. Further the same have
been given by way of information only and do not carry any recommendation.