Concept and Guidelines for Establishing Agro-Processing Center and its Economic Perspectives

Agro-processing development could make a significant contribution to the vocation of agriculture. At village/rural level, it can expand the local markets for primary agricultural products, add value by vertically integrating primary production and food processing systems and minimize post harvest losses. Considering the pitfalls and obstacles to agro-processing development, it may be instructive to understand the concept of establishing agro-processing center and its economic perspective. In the agro-processing centers, the processing equipment, namely, flourmill, dal mill, burr mill and multi purpose grain mill were assumed available for installation for the processing of wheat, pulses and spice grinding. The overall cost-economics was calculated to investigate the economic feasibility in establishing the agro processing centres in the rural areas of India.