Chapter-I: Capital Budgeting
Chapter-I: Capital Budgeting
Chapter-I: Capital Budgeting
CHAPTER-I
INTRODUCTION
Capital budgeting may be defined as the planning, evaluation and selection of capital
expenditure proposal as distinguished from operating year, capital expenditures
represent outlay whose principal benefits will be recognized over longer period of
time. Decision relating to capital expenditures as opposed to those for operating
expenditures, are generally irreversible and they require careful selection techniques
and procedures.
In the form of either debt or equity, capital is a very limited resource. There is a limit
to the volume of credit that the banking system can create in the economy.
Commercial banks and the other lending institutions have limited deposits from which
they can lend money to individuals, corporations and governments. In addition, the
Federal Reserve System requires each bank to maintain part of its deposits as
reserves. Having limited resources to lend, lending institutions are selective in
extending loans to their customers. But even if a bank were to extend unlimited loans
to a company, the management of that company would need to consider the impact
that increasing loans would have on the overall cost of financing.
In reality, any firm has limited borrowing resources that should be allocated among
the best investment alternatives. One might argue that a company can issue an almost
unlimited amount of common stock to raise capital. Increasing the number of shares
of company stock, however, will serve only to distribute the same amount of equity
among a greater number of share holders. In other words, as the number of shares of a
company increases, the company ownership of the individual stock holder may
proportionally decrease.
DEFINITION
Capital budgeting is defined as “the firm decision to invest its current funds
most effectively in long term activities in anticipation of an expected flow of future
benefit over a serious of year.
“Capital budgeting is long term planning for making and financing proposed
capital outlay”.
-Charles T.Horngeren
The investment decision of a firm are generally know as the capital budgeting or
capital expenditure decisions. A capital budgeting decision may be defined as the
firm’s decision to invest its current funds most effectively in the long term assets in
anticipation of an expanded flow of benefits over a series of years. The long term
asset are those that affect the firm’s operational beyond the one year period.
The argument that capital is a limited resource is true of any form of capital, whether
debt or equity (short-term or long-term, common stock) or retained earnings, accounts
payable or notes payable, and so on. Even the best known firm in an industry or a
community can increase its borrowing up to a certain limit. Once this pint has been
reached, the firm will either be denied more credit or be charged a higher interest rate,
making borrowing a less desirable way to raise capital.
Assembling of investments
Investment proposal identified by the production department and other department are
usually submitted in a standardized capital investment proposal form. Generally, most
of the proposal, before they reach the capital budgeting committee or viewed from
different angle. It also helps in creating a climate for bringing about co-ordinations of
inter related activities.
Investment proposals are usually classified into various categories for facilitating
decision making, budgeting and control.
Replacement investments
Expansion investment
New product investment
Obligatory and welfare investment
Decision making:
Projects involving smaller outlays and which can be decided by executives at lower
levels are often covered by a blanket appropriation for expenditures action. Projects
involving larger outlays are included in the capital budget after necessary approvals.
Before under facing such projects an appropriation order is usually required. The
purpose of this check is mainly to ensure that the funds position of the firm
satisfactory at the time of implementation.
Implementation action:
The major reasons for delay is insinuate formulation of projects but differently,
if necessary home work in terms of preliminary comprehensive and detailed
formulation of the project.
For project planning and control several network techniques like PERT
(Programmed evolution review techniques) and CPM (Critical path method) is
available.
Performance review:
It throws light on how realistic were the assumption underlying the project.
It includes the cash required to acquire the new equipment or build the new plant less
any net cash proceeds from the disposal of the replaced equipment. The initial outlay
also includes any additional working capital related to the new equipment. Only
changes that occur at the beginning of the project are included as part of the initial
investment outlay. Any additional working capital needed or no longer needed in a
future period is accounted for as a cash outflow or cash inflow during the period.
(The incremental change in operating revenues minus the incremental change in the
operating cost=incremental net revenue) minus (taxes) plus or minus (Changes in the
working capital and other adjustments).
It includes the net cash generated from the sale of the assets, tax effects from the
termination of the asset and the release of networking capital.
Although there are several methods used in capital budgeting, the net present value
technique is more commonly used. Under this method a project with a positive NPV
implies that it is worth investing in.
Faced with limited sources of capital, management should carefully decide whether a
particular project is economically acceptable. In the case of more than one project,
management must identify the projects that will contribute most to profits and,
consequently, to the value (or worth) of the firm. This, in essence, is the basis of
capital budgeting.
Often, it would be good to know the present value of the future investment is, or how
long it will take to mature (give returns). It could be much more profitable putting the
planned investment money in the bank and earning interest, or investing in an
alternative project.
Typical investment decisions include the decision to build another grain silo, cotton
gin or cold store or invest in a new distribution depot. At a lower level, marketers may
wish to evaluate whether to spend more on advertising or increasing the sales force,
although it is difficult to measure the sales to advertising ratio.
Chapter objective:
This chapter is intended to provide:
Capital budgeting is very obviously a vital activity in business. Vast sums of money
can be easily wasted if the investment turns out to be wrong or uneconomic. The
subject matter is difficult to grasp by nature of the topic covered and also because of
the mathematical content involved. However, it seeks to build on the concept of the
future value of money which may be spent now. It does this by examining the
techniques of net present value, internal rate of return and annuities. The timing of
cash flows are important in new investment decisions and so the chapter looks at this
“payback” concept. One problem which plagues developing countries is “inflation
rates” which can, in some cases, exceed 100% per annum.
The last point (g) is crucial and this is the subject of later sections of the chapter.
a) By project size:
c) By degree of dependence:
• Positive dependence
• Negative dependence
• Statistical dependence
• Conventional cash flow: Only one change in the cash flow sign.
e.g. -/++++ or +/----, etc
• Non- Conventional cash flow: More than one change in the cash flow
sign.
Investment projects:
The time value of money:
Recall that the interaction of lenders with borrowers sets an equilibrium rate of
interest. Borrowing is only worthwhile if the return on the loan exceeds the cost of the
borrowed funds. Lending is only worthwhile if the return is at least equal to that
which can be obtained from alternative opportunities in the same risk class.
I) the time value of money: The receipt of money is preferred sooner rather than later.
Money can be used to earn more money. The earlier the money is received, the
greater the potential for increasing wealth. Thus, to forego the use of money, you
must get some compensation.
II) The risk of the capital sum not being repaid: This uncertainty requires a premium
as a hedge against the risk; hence the return must be commensurate with the risk
being undertaken.
III) Inflation: Money may lose its purchasing power over time. The lender must be
compensated for the declining spending/purchasing power of money. If the lender
receives no compensation, he/she will be worse off when the loan is repaid than at the
time of lending the money.
Future value (FV) is the value in dollars at some point in the future of one or more
investments.
The general formula for computing future value is as follows:
FVn = V0 (1+r)n
Where
V0 is the initial sum invested,r is the interest rate ,n is the number of periods for which
the investment is to receive interest.
Thus we can compute the future value of what V0 will accumulate to in n years when
it is compounded annually at the same rate of r by using the above formula.
FVn = V0 (1+r)n
By denoting Vo by PV we obtain:
FVn = PV (1+r)n
As you will see from the following exercise, given the alternative of earning 10% on
his money, an individual (or firm) should never offer (invest) more than $10.00 to
obtain $11.00 with certainty at the end of the year.
The NPV method is used for evaluating the desirability of investments or projects.
Where
Ct = the net cash receipt at the end of year t
I0 = the initial investment outlay
r = the discount rate/the required minimum rate of return on investment
n = the project/investment’s duration in years
Decision rule:
d) Perpetuities:
Independent project: Selecting one project does not preclude the choosing of the
other.
With conventional cash flows (-|+|+) no conflict in decision arises; in this case
both NPV and IRR lead to the same accept/reject decisions.
If cash flows are discounted at k1, NPV is positive and IRR> k1: accept project
If cash flows are discounted at k2, NPV is negative and IRR< k1: reject project
Beyond the point k0: project A is superior to project B, there project is preferred to
project B.
NPV and IRR may give conflicting decisions where projects differ in their scale of
investment.
The CIMA defines payback as ‘the time it takes the cash inflows from a capital
investment project to equal the cash outflows, usually expressed in years’. When
deciding between two or more competing projects, the usual decision is to accept the
one with the shortest payback.
Payback is often used as a “first screening method”. By this, we mean that when a
capital investment project is being considered, the first question to ask is: ‘How long
will it take to payback its cost?’ The company might have a target payback, and so it
would reject a capital project unless its payback period was less than a certain number
of years.
The ARR method (also called the return on capital employed(ROCE) or the return on
investment (ROI) method) of appraising a capital project is to estimate the accounting
rate of return that the project should yield. If it exceeds a target rate of return, the
project will be undertaken.
The payback and ARR methods in practice:
Despite the limitations of the payback method, it is the method most widely used in
practice. There are a number of reasons for this:
EXPANSION
DIVERSIFICATION
Types of capital
budgeting
decisions
REPLACEMENT
RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
Expansion:
The company may have to expand its production capacities on accounts of high
demand for its products or inadequate production capacity. This will need additional
capital equipment.
Diversification:
Replacement:
The replacement of fixed assets in place of existing assets, either being worn out or
become out dated on account of new technology.
Large sums of money may have to be spent for research and development, in case
those industries where technology is rapidly changing. In such cases large sums of
money are needed for research and development activities. So these are also included
in the proposal so Capital Budgeting.
Miscellaneous Proposals:
A company may have to invest money in projects, which do not directly helping
achieving profit-oriented goals. For example, installation of pollution control
equipment may be necessary on account of legal requirements. Therefore, funds are
required for such proposal also.
Capital
Budgeting
Techniques
Internal Rate of
Accounting Rate return(IRR)
of Return(ARR)
Profitability
Index
(PI)
Capital budgeting decisions are among the most crucial and critical decisions and they
have significant impact on the future profitability of the firm. A special care should
taken while making capital decisions, because it influences all the branches of a
company such as production, marketing, personnel, etc. the other reasons for keeping
more attention on capital budgeting decisions include the following:
1. Long term implications:
2. Investment of large funds:
3. Irreversible decisions:
4. Most difficult to make:
5. Rising of fund
CHAPTER-II
A capital budgeting decision may be defined as the firm’s to investing its current
funds most efficiency in the long term assets in anticipation of expected flows of
benefits over a serious of years.
To provide support in order to accomplished the over all goal of the capital
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
I. Primary data
PRIMARY DATA
The primary data needed for the study is gathered through interview with concerned
officers and staff, either individually or collectively, sum of the information has been
verified or supplemented with personal observation conducting personal interviews
with concerned officers of finance department of “TIRUMALA MILK PRODUCTS
PRIVATE LTD”.
SECONDARY DATA
The secondary data needed for the study was collected from published sources such
as, pamphlets of annual reports, returns and internal records, reference from text
books and journal management.
An efficient allocation of capital is the most important finance function in the modern
times. It involves decisions to commit the firm’s funds to the long-term assets.
Capitals budgeting for investment decisions are of considerable importance to the
firm since they tend to determine its value by influencing its growth, evaluation of
capital budgeting decisions.
The rationale underlying the capital budgeting decisions efficiency. Thus, a firm must
replace worn and obsolete plant and machinery, acquire fixed assets for current and
new products and make strategic investment decisions. This will enable the firm to
achieve its objective of maximizing profits either by way of increased revenues or
cost reductions. The quality of these decisions is improved by capital budgeting.
Capital budgeting decision can be of two types:
2) They affect the risk of the firm; it is difficult to reverse capital investment
decisions because the market for used capital investment in ill organized or most of
the capital equipments bought by a firm to meet its specific requirements.
Diagram 1.4:
DATA
SOURCES
PRIMARY SECONDARY
SOURCES SOURCES
PERSONAL TEXT
ANNUAL
OBSERVA NCE BOOKS
REPORTS
JOURNALS
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CAPITAL BUDGETING
The project has to be completed with the available data given to us.
The period of study that is 4 weeks is not enough to conduct study of the
project
The study is carried basing on the information and documents provided by the
organization
There was no scope of gathering current information, as the auditing has not
The procedure has to be completed with the available data with us.
CHAPTER-III
We have established a dairy unit named Tirumala Milk products (P) Limited, at
Kadivedu Village, Chillakur Mandal, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh and
commissionered for commercial production for mareting during sepetember 1999 to
handle 2,25,000 litres of milk per day. The plant is located on Calcutta-Chennai
National High way, 9kms from Gudur town towards Chennai, in an are of 13.00 acres.
1. Inception
2. Vision
3. Mission
4. Policies
(1) INCEPTION:
The unit is registered under S.S.I. The milk is bulk is being purchased from other
dairies processed, homogenized, packed and marketed mainly in Chennai, Bangalore
and Mysore cites. The milk is being also sold in Guduru, Tirupathi and Nellore towns
basing on consumers’ demand. By marketing the milk in various towns, assured
market. Out let is provided to large number of village milk producers for their surplus
are applied before machinery is installed in the dairy. Strict quality standards are
applied before marketing the milk for which well equipped laboratory is established.
In order to deliver quality milk to the consumers insulted trucks are used to transport
milk from the dairy to various destinations.
(2) VISION:
Tirumala Milk Products (P) Limited is a dream come true to the dynamic young
entrepreneurs who have jointly efforted to convert their skills, knowledge and
experience in the field of processing and producing milk and milk products.
Realizing the Milk Product Potentialities of the inversion track of the Government of
Andhra Pradesh and Government of India, with self managed financial resources and
established the Tirumala Dairy in the year 1995 at Narasaraopet, Guntur District and
erected new plant at Kadivedu in the year 1999. Today, the dairy has posd to equate
major dairies int eh southern region which has not only captured the market but also
has mode “Thirumala” an accepted Brand and preference of the consumers.
(3) MISSION:
Tirumala Milk Product (P) Limited is a dream come true to the dynamic young
entrepreneurs who have jointly efforted to convert their skills, knowledge and
experience in the field of processing and producing milk products.
(4) POLICIES:
Realizing the milk product potentialities of the inversion track of the Government of
Andhra Pradesh and Government of India, with self managed financial resources and
established the Tirumala Dairy in the year 1995, at Narasaraopet District, Guntur and
erected new plant at Kadivedu in the year 1999. today, the dairy has posed to equate
major dairies in the southern region which has not only captured the market but also
has mode “ TIRUMALA” an accepted Brand and preference of the consumers.
Tirumala Milk Product (P) Ltd., Handles 6.5 Lakhs litres of milk per day in all their
pacing stations and main dairy plant. TMPPL having good infrastructure and well
equipped with all latest machinery to process 6.5 lakhs liter of milk per day, which is
the highest in the state of Andhra Pradesh has developed in a decade.
PROCUREMENT OF MILK
Butter: Is made from pure cow & buffalos fat under hygienically processed through
continues butter making machine with a capacity.
Ghee: Is made from pure cow & Buffalos butter under supervision 30 years
granulation, color and aroma of ghee with a capacity of 8 tones per day. Ghee is
packed in a wide range of 7ml to 15 kgs.
Milk powder: Is made from fresh cow & buffalo milk, plant is capable of marketing
all type of milk powders with a capacity of 15 tones per day.
By – products: Like Sterilized Flavored Milk, Lassi, Khava, Milk cake, Mysore Pak,
Panner.
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
TMPPL has its main dairy plant at kadivedu with handling and local procurement.
TMPPL has well maintained laboratories in all their dairies. Technically qualified
staff are looking after testing of milk and milk products. Quality assurance
programmes are implemented at every stage to ensure quality of milk and products.
Main plant is processing 2.5 lakhs liter of milk per day in automatic sachet filling
machines to supply and distribution of milk to Chennai, Tirupathi, Nellore etc., in
insulated pubs.
(c) Roles:
The main dairy has powder plant of 15 tons capacity per day. The plant has been
designed to product 15000 kgs of milk power on a 20hours/ day. Evaporation is done
in multiple effect falling film evaporators and powder is manufactured with high
pressure nozzles pray dryer. The water evaporation capacity of the evaporator is
9400kg/hr and spray dryer is designed to 753 kg/hr. Fluid dbe dryer is also provided.
TMPPL is having good marketing of milk and milk products, arketing offices at
Chennai, Bangalore & Hyderabad is having good distribution system. All the
marketing Executives are professionally trained and having good skills and
experience in marketing products. To maintain cold chain there are about 35 insulated
puff vehicles to trans port milk to various towns. There is tremendous in crease in
sales of milk card milk products due to best quality, there are about 3000 out tets in
AP, Tamilanadu and Karanataka. The dairy is catering need of 10 lakh customers
daily in southern region.
Finance :-
Your directors have pleasure is submitting they 10th annual report and audited
accounts for the financial year 2008-2009.
Financial Results
The Consolidated Financial Results for the year ended 31th March, 2009 are
summarized below (Rs. In lacs)
REVIEW OF OPERATION
During the year under review the following companies are amalgamated.
As the share holders are aware of the amalgamation is to carry out the business more
economically and profitably by expanding the activities of the company. The scheme
of amalgamation is approved by the Honorable High Court of A.P as under Tirumala
Dairy Pvt Ltd. For 20 shares 1 share of Tirumala Milk Products (P) Ltd.,The share
application money with amalgamating shall be transferred to amalgamated company
and will treat accordingly.
The company has achieved a turnover of Rs.28527 lakhs as against 22202 lakhs for
previous year recording increase of 28.49% over the previous year. And the net profit
margin was increased to 2.13% from 1.40% i.e Rs.608.10 lakhs 311.80 lakhs of
previous year.
Fixed deposits:
Your company has not accepted deposits during the year under review
.Production:
The main plant has capacities with equipment to manufacture milk products like
butter, ghee and milk powder.
HUMAN RESOURCE:
The primary functions of the personnel department are responsible for initiating
evolving general policies procedure with practiced common with the future objectives
of the company. Responsible for leaving uniform service conditions for all
employees. Responsible for recruitment and promotion of officers and respect of
posting various groups users.
PRODUCTION:
TMPPL has its main dairy plant at Kadiveedu with handing capacity of 4.0 lakhs. Lts.
Of milk per day from various chilling centers and local procurement.
Market Milk:
Main plant is processing 2.5 lakhs liter of milk per day in automatic sachet filling
machines to supply and distribution of milk to Chennai, Tirupathi, Nellore etc, and
insulated pubs.
There is continuous growth is sales of milk from 5000 lts to 2,50,000. Its with in a
span of one decade. TMPPL maintaining consistency in quality and its standards
consumers have much confidence.
TMPPL having its own supply chain management, which makes ease in timely
distribution and assured supply, which gains customers satisfaction.
At our palamer unit process and supply of 1.00 lakh liters of milk and 2000 liters
of cured to Bangalore city.
At our Vellachervu & Bhimadolu packing stations processing and packing 2.00
lakhs liters of milk to Hyderabad, Warangal, Vijayawada, Eluru, Guntur and
Rajahmundry.
Quality Assurance:
• TMPPL has well maintained laboratories in all their dairies. Technically qualified
staff are looking after of milk and products. Quality assurance programmes are
implemented at every stage to ensure quality of milk and milk products.
• This dairy is am ISO 9001:2000 and an ISO 22000:2005 certified company. The
dairy is following quality management system and food safety standards.
• TMPPL is having ISI License and Agmark License and all other statutory standards
as per requirements.
• There is continuous growth in procurement and sales the capacities of the plant are
also increased to handle the milk to manufacture milk products.
• To meet the demand in market there is also plant to introduce products like cup
curd, lussey in retail markets.
• From time to time consumer are identified and producing the new products to
satisfy the customer, continual surveys are conducted to get feedback information
for analysis.
Sales:
Today, India is ‘The Oyster” of the global dairy industry. It offers opportunities
galore to entrepreneur’s world wide, who wish to capitalize on one of the world’s
largest and fastest growing markets for milk and milk products. A bagful of ‘pearls’
awaits the international dairy processor in India. The Indian dairy industry is rapidly
growing, trying to keep pace with the galloping progress around the world. As he
expands his overseas operation to India many profitable options await him. He may
transfer technology, sign joint ventures or use India as a sourcing center for regional
exports. The liberalization of the Indian economy beckons to MNC’s and foreign
investors alike.
India’s dairy sector is expected to triple its production in the next 10 years in view of
expanding potential for export to Europe and the West. Moreover with WTO
regulations expected to come into force in coming years all the developed countries
which are among big exporters today would have to withdraw the support and subsidy
to their domestic milk products sector. Also India today is the lowest cost producer of
per liter of milk in the world, at 27 cents, compared with the U.S’s 63 cents, and
Japan’s $2.8 dollars. Also to take advantage of this lowest cost of milk production and
increasing production in the country multinational companies are planning to expand
their activities here. Some of these milk producers have already obtained quality
standard certificates from the authorities. This will help them in marketing their
products in foreign countries in processed form.
The urban market for milk products is expected to grow at an accelerated pace of
around 33% per annum to around Rs.43,500 Crores by year 2005. This growth is
going to come from the greater emphasis on the processed foods sector and also by
increase in the conversion of milk into milk products. By 2005, the value of Indian
dairy produce is expected to be Rs.10,00,000 Million. Presently, the market is valued
at around Rs.7,00,000 Million.
Background:
India with 134mn cows and 125mn buffaloes has the largest population of cattle in the
world. Total cattle population in the country as on October’00 stood at 313mn. More
than fifty percent of the buffaloes and twenty percent of the cattle in the world are
found in India and most of these are milk cows and milk buffaloes.
Indian dairy sector contributes the large share in agricultural gross domestic products.
Presently there are around 70,000 village dairy cooperatives across the country. The
co-operative societies are federated into 170 district milk producers unions, which is
turn has 22-state co-operative dairy federation. Milk production gives employment to
more than 72mn dairy farmers. In terms of total production, India is the leading
producer of milk in the world followed by USA. The milk production in 1999-00 is
estimated at 78mn MTas compared to 74.5mn MT in the previous year. This
production is expected to increase to 81mn MT by 2000-01 of this total produce of
78mn cows’ milk constitute 36mn MT while rest is from other cattle.
While world milk production declined by 2 percent in the last three years, according
to FAO estimates, Indian production has increased by 4 percent. The milk production
in India accounts for more than 13% of the total world output and 57% of total Asia’s
production. The top five milk producing nations in the world are India, Russia,
Germany and France.
Although milk production has grown at a fast pace during the last three decades
(Courtesy: Operation Flood), milk yield per animal is very low. The main reasons for
the low yield are
Source: Export prospects for agro-based industries, World Trade Centre, Mumbai.
year Production in MT
1998-99 48.4
1999-00 51.4
2000-01 53.7
2001-02 56.3
2002-03 58.6
2003-04 61.2
2004-05 63.5
2005-06 65.0
2006-07 68.5
2007-08 70.8
2008-09 74.7
2009-2010(E) 78.1
2010-11(T) 81.0
(Million MTS)
country 2007-08 2008-09 (Approx.)
India 71 74.5
USA 71 71
Russia 34 33
Germany 27 27
France 24 24
Pakistan 21 22
Brazil 21 27
UK 14 14
Ukraine 15 14
Poland 12 12
New Zealand 11 12
Netherlands 11 11
Italy 10 10
Australia 9 10
Operation Flood:
The transition of the Indian milk industry from a situation of net import to that of
surplus has been led by the efforts of National Dairy Development Board’s Operation
Flood. Program under the aegis of the former Chairman of the board Dr.Kurien.
Launched in 1970, Operation Flood has led to the modernization of India’s dairy
sector and created a strong network for procurement processing and distribution of
milk by the co-operative sector. Per capita availability of milk has increased from 132
gm per day in 1950 to over 220 gm per day in 2007. The main thrust of Operation
Flood was to organize dairy cooperatives in the milk shed areas of the village, and to
link them to the fourth Metro cities, which are the main markets for milk. The efforts
undertaken by NDDB have not only led to enhanced production, improvement in
methods of processing and income generation in the rural areas. It has also led to an
improvement in yields, longer lactation periods, shorter calving intervals, etc through
the use of modern breeding techniques. Establishment of milk collection centers and
chilling centers has enhanced life of raw milk and enabled minimization of wastage
due to dairy development programmed and looking at the success achieved in India
by adopting the co-operative route, a few other countries have also replicated the
model of India’s White Revolution.
Gm / day
Year
1950 132
1960 127
1968 113
1973 111
1980* 128
1990 178
1992 192
2005 198
2006 200
2007 202
2008 203
2009 212
2010 E 225
2011 P 250
E = Estimated
P = Provisional
Fresh milk:
Over 50% of the milk produced in India is buffalo milk. And 45% is cow milk. The
buffalo milk contribution to total milk produce is expected to be 54% in 2000. buffalo
milk 3.6% protein, 7.4% fat, 5.5% sugar, 0.8% ash and 82.7% water where as cow
milk has 3.5 protein, 3.7% fat, 4.9% milk sugar, 0.7% ash and 87% water. While
presently (for the year 2000) the price of buffalo milk is ruling at $261 – 313 per MT
that of cow is ruling $170-267 per MT. fresh pasteurized milk is available in
packaged from. However, a large part of milk consumed in India is not pasteurized,
and is sold in loose form by vendors. Sterilized milk is scarcely available in India.
Milk has been an integral pat of Indian food for centuries. The par capital availability
of milk in India has grown from 172 gm per person per day in 1972 to 182 gm in
1992 and 203 gm in 1988-2008. This is expected to increase to 212 gms for 2008-09.
However, a large part of the population cannot afford milk. At this per capita
consumption it is below the world average of 285 gm and even less than 220 gm
There are regional disparities in production and consumption also. The per capita
availability in the north is 278gm, west 174gm, south 148gm and in the east only 93
gm per person per day. This disparity is due to concentration of milk production in
some pockets and high cost of transportation. Also the output of milk in cereal
growing areas is much higher than elsewhere which can be attributed to abundant
availability of fodder, crop residues, etc which have a high food value for milk
animals.
In India about 46% of the total milk produced is consumed in liquid form and 47% us
converted into traditional products like cottage butter, ghee, punier, khoya, curd,
Malay, etc. only 7% of the milk goes into the production of western products like
milk powders, processed butter and processed cheese. The remaining 54% is utilized
for conversion to milk products. Among the milk products manufactured by the
organized sector some of the prominent ones are ghee, butter, cheese, ice creams,
milk powders, malted milk food, condensed milk infant’s foods etc of these ghee
alone accounts for 85%.
It is estimated that around 20% of the total milk produced in the country is consumed
at producer-household level and remaining is marketed through various cooperatives,
private dairies and vendors. Also of the total produce more than 50% is produced by
cooperatives and other private dairies.
While for cooperatives of the total milk produced 60% is consumed in fluid form and
rest is used for manufacturing processed value added dairy products; for private
dairies only 45% is marketed in fluid form and rest is processed into value added
products like ghee, makhan etc.
Still, several consumers in urban areas prefer to buy loose milk from vendors due to
the strong perception that loose milk is fresh. Also a current level of processing and
packaging capacity limits the availability of packaged milk.
The preferred dairy animal in India is buffalo unlike the majority of the world market,
which is dominated by cow milk. As high as 98% of milk is produced in rural India,
which caters to 72% of the total population, whereas the urban sector with 28%
population consumes 56% of total milk produced. Even in urban India, as high as
83% of the consumed milk comes from the unorganized traditional sector.
Presently, only 12% of the milk market is represented by packaged and branded
pasteurized milk, valued at about Rs.8,000 crores. Quality of milk sold by
unorganized sector however is inconsistent and o is the price across the season in
local areas. Also these vendors add water and caustic soda, which makes the milk
unhygienic.
India’s dairy market is multi-layered. It’s shaped like a pyramid with the base made
up of a vast market for low-cost milk. The bulk of the demand for milk is among the
poor in urban areas whose individual requirement is small, may be a glassful for use
as whitener for their tea and coffee. Nevertheless, it adds up to a sizable volume –
millions of liters per day. In the major cities lies an immense growth potential for the
modern sector. Presently, barely 778 out of 3,700 cities and towns are served by its
milk distribution network, dispensing hygienically packed wholesome, quality
pasteurized milk. According to one estimate, the packed milk segment would double
in the next five years, giving both strength and volume to the modern sector. The
narrow tip at the top is a small but affluent market for western type milk products.