Balasore Rice Mills (Odisha)

Introduction

The district of Balasore hosts over 2000 industries in different categories, including 25 rice mills that process paddy into parboiled rice and provide employment to about 1500 people. The important by-products from rice mills include (i) husk (23%), which is used as in-house fuel in boilers to generate steam; and (ii) bran, which is sold for further processing into bran oil. The Balasore rice mills fall under two categories according to paddy processing capacity: (i) 3 tonnes per hour (21 mills) and (ii) 6 tonnes per hour (4 mills). The cluster processes around 0.18 million tonnes of paddy annually.

Products manufactured

Parboiled rice; raw rice; bran

Number of MSMEs

25

Energy consumption

Low

Main fuels

Electricity; husk (generated in-house); diesel

Production & turnover

122,400 tpa

Total energy consumption (toe)

11,327

Leading industry association(s)

• Balasore Rice Millers Association » All Odisha Rice Millers Association (AORMA) http://www.aorma.in/
• North Orissa Chamber of Commerce & Industry (NOCCI) http://www.nocci.in/
• Balasore Chamber of Industries & Commerce (BCIC) http://www.bcicbalasore.org/

Cluster Profile

https://www.sameeeksha.org/pdf/clusterprofile/balasore-ricemills-odisha.pdf

Other Resources

• Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack https://crri.icar.gov.in/
• Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar http://www.ouat.nic.in/
• Department of MSMEs, Government of Odisha https://msme.odisha.gov.in/

Source: Data pertains to 2015-16, collected primarily under the TERI-SDC EESE project.