Agro Products

Wheat
India is the fourth largest country in the wheat production. Wheat occupies 15% of total cropped area and 20% of total area devoted to food grains.

Wheat is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast, cereal, pasta, noodles, couscous, fermentation to make beer, other alcoholic beverages or biofuel. It is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and its straw can be used as a construction material for roofing thatch.

• Sona, sonalika and Kalyan are important variety of wheat.
• Wheat planted in late October-November.
• Harvesting usually begins by middle of April.

Sugar
Sugar is a sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugarcane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks & medicines to improve their taste.

Other sugar crops include sweet sorghum, sugar maple, honey and corn sugar. The types of sugar used today are white fully refined sugar composed of clear, colorless or crystal fragments; or brown sugar which is less fully refined and contains a greater amount of treacle residue from which it obtains color.

Indian Corn / Maize
In India, yellow maize is emerging as the third most important crop after rice and wheat with annual production of 16.7 million ton.

Maize has its significance as a source of a large number of industrial products besides its uses as human food and animal feed. Diversified uses of maize for maize corn, starch industry, corn oil production, baby corns, popcorns, etc., and potential for exports has added to the demand of maize all over world.

Corn is used for flour production and as a feedstuff. Corn is the most calorific feedstuff and is used to feed chickens, laying hens and fattening pigs.

Fenugreek Seeds
India occupies the leading position in the production of Rapeseed, with annual production of 7.4 million ton in the previous year.

In India, it is grown on 13% of cropped land. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, rapeseed was the third leading source of vegetable oil in the world, after Soya bean and oil palm, and also the world's second leading source of protein meal.

Processing of rapeseed for oil production provides rapeseed animal meal as a by-product. The by-product is a high protein animal feed. The feed is mostly employed for cattle feeding but also for hogs and poultry. Rapeseed meal is a coarse powdery material, produced from rapeseed cake after series of preparatory physical processes followed by multistage extraction of oil under hygienically controlled conditions. The feed is mostly employed for cattle feeding, and also for pigs and chickens. Apart from this, it is used to improve tea plant yield, increase output of bersem & leafy vegetables, papayas, orchids and tobacco.