Project report

Fodder Production in orchards

 PROJECT TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OF FODDER RESOURCES FOR UT OF J&K

Lakh tons and 33.069 Lakh tons, respectively. Feed cost constitutes ~
75% of the total milk cost and the green fodder constitutes 35% of the
total feed input. The region produces around 64 lakh MT of green fodder
and 35 lakh MT of dry fodder against the requirement of 139.13 lakh MT
and 58.53 lakh MT, respectively with an overall deficit of about 40.93%.
The area under cultivated fodder crop varieties is barely 4% of the total
cultivated area
Objectives/ Rationale 1. The total annual fodder requirement of bovines and sheep/ goat is 96.425
Intervention
1. Large scale production of fodder/ feed, processing and value addition
through pilot scale demonstrations and technological interventions
augmented through Capital infusion & incentives
2. Innovative approaches for green fodder production & mass
multiplication under Hi-tech agriculture
3. Genetic improvement of conventional fodder crops for yield and
quality
4. Rejuvenation and promotion of Horti-Silivi-pastoral Systems and
grasslands
Total
Budget
Total Budget INR 12905.00 Lakhs
CSS X
Capex √
Equity X
Others X
Output/
Outcome
Output
1. Farmer demo plots on 4100 ha/year
2. 300 hay-silage making units
3. Creation of 25 fodder depots 500 hydroponic units (15,000 MT green
fodder output)
4. 30-40% increase in productivity from fodder crops by use of improved
varieties
5. 15 lac MT of fodder (15% of deficit) from 60,000 Ha (25% of total)
orchards
6. 3.75 Lakh MT of fodder from forest closures (25,000 ha)

7. 1.0 Lakh MT of fodder from alpine & sub-alpine grasslands (20,000

ha)
Outcome
Development & Promotion of Varieties with early maturity, climate
resilience & high yield/biomass
Validation & Adoption of Hi-tech hydroponics farming models
Optimum land use in orchards
Replenishment of forest ecosystem
Rejuvenation / improvement of alpine/ subalpine pastures/ grasslands
Entrepreneurship development and employability
Farmers training and knowledge development (this will create a scope of
narrowing down the fodder deficit even further)
 Introduction:
Agricultural mechanization helps in increasing production, productivity and profitability in
agriculture in achieving timeliness in farm operations, bringing precision in the metering and
placement of input reducing available input losses increasing utilization qualitative and quantities
damages.

The importance of the Agra service centre has been recognized and is being implemented
successfully in Orissa. Due to reduction in the size of the holdings. It is difficult for farmers hold the
machinery on their own . As a result, the benefits of mechanization have been enjoyed by only a
sector of the farmers, Who have large farm holdings. This problem can be solved by establishing an
Agro service centre as they will be and when it is needed.

Also a large number of farmers suffer due to lack of service and repair and maintenance facilities
for their machinery, there is a need to have such facility attached to the Agro service Center to bring
the service nearer to the farmers . The ideally an Agro service Center should have all facilities to
meet the critical need of the farmers and at the same time become a self reliant and viable
proposition.

Primary Objectives of the Project:

 To undertake the business of letting big farm machinery for farming at village level.
 To take available service centre of sophisticated and costly farm implements (repairing
facility)
 To help farmers in improving their hectare production of agriculture produces .
 To undertake regular visit, demonstration programmed, advice and inquiry about
upliftment of rural economic by spreading value added centre work.

Secondary Objectives
 Resource centre for awareness on various development related issues.
 Facilitator for creation of SHGs and farmers’ clubs
 Moderator for smooth functioning of SHGs and farmers’ clubs
 Information generation at grass root level for developing farmers’ and area profile
 Arranging interaction between technical experts, local artisans and farmers.
 Backward and forward linkages in value chain
 Facilitation in bank and insurance related activities
 Market and product related information dissemination through use of Information
Communication Technology (ICT)
 Contract production, agriculture and farm diversification
 Resources and activity planning with the help of customized software
 Crop specific consultancy and query Redressal
 Facilitation for various government schemes and programmes
 Location of the project
The unit is planned to set up at beneficiary village. The beneficiary village is well connected with
pucca road and is well electrified. All civic amenities are available at the proposed site.

ACABC Consultancy Model

For effective implementation of this project and carry out project activities appropriately
and for regular facilitation / monitoring, the following human resource team has been
identified-

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers welfare Govt. of India,

New Delhi
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE)
Hyderabad
Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development,
NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh
Department of Agriculture,
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Department of Agriculture at District

Agri-Clinic and Agribusiness Centre

Farmer
Income parameters of the project:
The project shall be operationalized in Meerut District. A Rotavator is a very useful tool that for a
homeowner is used in the garden or an allotment, and also in fields by farmland owners. The
purpose of a Rotavator is to break up the soil so that planting (either of crops or plants, mostly
seeds) can take place. The shortage of labor has created the scope for tractor and Rotavator on rent
basis. The farmers used to take this machinery on rent @ Rs. 650/hour.

A disc harrow is a farm implement that is used to till the soil where crops are to be planted. It is
also used to chop up unwanted weeds or crop remainders. It consists of many carbon steel and
sometimes the longer-lasting boron discs, which have many varying concavities and disc blade sizes
and spacing (the choices of the latter being determined by the final result required in a given soil
type) and which are arranged into two sections

A cultivator is any of several types of farm implement used for secondary tillage. One sense of the
name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged
through it linearly. Another sense refers to machines that use rotary motion of disks or teeth to
accomplish a similar result. The rotary tiller is a principal example

A sprayer is a device used to spray a liquid, where sprayers are commonly used for projection of
water, weed killers, crop performance materials, pest maintenance chemicals, as well as
manufacturing and production line ingredients. In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece
of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops.

potato planter: 2 / 3 / 4 Row potato planter is produced with hydraulic lifting lever and universal
three point linkage system. Sowing row space can be adjusted to sow 12 different positions by
changing the transmission gears. And also this machine has a special belt with bucket that enables
to sow singly. The spaces between rows are whether stable or can be adjusted from 62 to 75 cm.

Potato harvesters are machines that harvest potatoes. They work by lifting the potatoes from the
bed using a share. Soil and crop are transferred onto a series of webs where the loose soil is sieved
out. The potatoes are moved towards the back of the harvester on to a separation unit and then (on
manned machines) to a picking table where people pick out the stones, clods, and haulms by hand.
The potatoes then go on to a side elevator and into a trailer or a potato box.

Rotary Mulcher It shreds the crop residues/grass into small pieces and spread equally on the field.
It is highly compatible to shred vineyards & orchard pruned materials, grass, bushes, crop residues
like sugarcane trash, banana, coconut leaves, paddy straw, maize stalk as thick as 2-3 cm in
diameter. It can Shred entire cotton plant after harvesting.
Bio mulch serves dual proposes, Benefits of mulching and improve overall organic structure and
soil fertility after decomposition
 TOTAL COST OF PROJECT
S. No Particulars Amount (Rs)
1 Machinery 665000.00
2 Working capital 35000.00

TOTAL COST 700000.00

Cost of land is not taken into account

COST OF MACHINERY
S. No. Machinery Cost (Rs)
1 Tractor (Kubota 24 HP) 525000.00

2 Rotavator 60000.00
3 Reaper 80000.00
TOTAL 665,000.00

Means of Finance
S. No. Particulars Amount (Rs)
1 Margin Money 210,000.00
2 Loan 490,000.00
3 TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT 700,000.00

4 Loan Amount 490000.0

5 Rate of Interest 12%
6 Repayment in number of years 5 years

7 Subsidy 36% of Total Financial Outlay 252,000.00

Term loan requirement, repayments and interest details

S. No Particulars Year Amount in Rs.
1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
1 Term loan 490,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2 Loan Repayment 54444.44444 108888.889 108888.889 108888.89 108888.89
3 Outstanding term loan 435,555.56 326,666.67 217,777.78 108,888.89 0.00
4 Interest on term loan 58800.00 52266.67 39200.00 26133.33 13066.67
 Estimated Salaries and Wages
S. Manpower Amount Nos. Salary Amount in (Rs)
No. Salary/ 1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
month
1 Skilled driver for 7000 1 84000 92400 101640 111804 122984
operation of
machinery
2 Unskilled labour 5000 1 60000 66000 72600 79860 87846
TOTAL 144000 158400 174240 191664 210830

OPERATIONAL EXPENSES
S. No Particulars Amount in (Rs)

1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year

1 Administrative & 3000 3300 3630 3993 4392
Marketing Expenses
2 Salaries and Wages 144000 158400 174240 191664 210830
5 Maintenance and repairs 94500 103950 114345 125780 138357
@ 5% of machinery

TOTAL 241500 265650 292215 321437 353580

10% rise in operational expenses is taken into account from 2nd year on wards

Working Capital Requirements and Interest Details

S. No Particulars Amount in (Rs)

1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year

1 Operational Expenses 241500 265650 292215 321437 353580
2 Working Capital 60375 66413 73054 80359 88395
Requirements for three
months
3 Margin money for 15094 16603 18263 20090 22099
working capital
4 Working capital loan 45281 49809 54790 60269 66296
5 Interest on working 5434 5977 6575 7232 7956
capital @ 12%
 Calculation of Depreciation
S. No Particulars Head Amount in Rs.
1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
Depreciation (13.91%) 1650000 1420485 1222896 1052790.8 906347.57
1 Machineries Depreciation 229515 197589 170105 146443 126072.95
Written down value 1420485 1222896 1052791 906347.57 780274.62

Depreciation (10%) 35000 31500 28350 25515 22963.5

2 Shed Depreciation 3500 3150 2835 2552 2296
Written down value 31500 28350 25515 22963.5 20667.15
Total Depreciation 233015 200739 172940 148995 128369

Expected Income for Custom Hiring Equipments and Machineries

S. No Machinery Rent Annual Usuage Annual Income (Rs)
1 Rotavator Rs.650/ha 1024 ha 665600
2 Reaper Rs.700/hour 550 hours 1320000
TOTAL 1985600

Profitability
S. No Particulars Amount in Rs.
1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
1 Gross Income 1985600 2184160 2402576 2642833.6 2907117
2 Operational Expenses 241500 265650 292215 321437 353580
3 Interest on Working Capital 5434 5977 6575 7232 7956
4 Interest on Term Loan 58800 52267 39200 26133 13067
5 Depreciation 233015 200739 172940 148995 128369
6 Profit 1446851 1659527 1891646 2139037 2404145
 Calculation of IRR & BCR
S. No Particulars Amount in Rs.
1 Year 2Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year
A Sources of Funds
1 Equity
210,000.00
2 Term loan 490,000.00
3 PBDIT 1446851 1659527 1891646 2139037 2404145
4 Bank borrowings for 45281 16603 54790 60269 66296
working capital
Total 2192133 1676130 1946437 2199306 2470442
B Application of Funds
1 Fixed Assets 2190000
2 Contingencies 37800
3 Working Capital 60375 66413 73054 80359 88395
Requirement
4 Interest-Term loan 58800 52267 39200 26133 13067
5 Term loan repayment 54444.4444 108888.889 108888.889 108888.889 108888.8889
6 Interest-Working 5434 5977 6575 7232 7956
Capital
Total 2406853 233545 227717 222614 218306
Opening in hand/bank 0 -214721 1227864 2946583 4923276
Cash Flow (A-B) -214721 1442585 1718719 1976692 2252135
Closing in hand/bank -214721 1227864 2946583 4923276 7175411
C. Calculation of IRR
Inflow 1446851 1659527 1891646 2139037 2404145
Outflow 2346478 167133 154664 142255 129911
Net -899627 1492394 1736983 1996782 2274234
IRR 177%
BCR 3.24482241