Salem district is the centre of India's sago and tapioca starch industry, with hundreds of factories processing tubers from surrounding farms, and is also known for its steel plant, re-rolling mills, textiles and silver anklets.
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Sago and starch
Tuber procurementFarmer, weight, starch content and price
ProcessingCrushing, settling and drying, with recovery
GradesSago and starch by quality
SalesThrough the cooperative marketing society and direct
EffluentTreatment and compliance records
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Starch content pays the farmer
Tubers are priced on starch content measured at the gate. Recording each load's test and matching it to recovery in the factory keeps purchases honest.
Pay on starch points, and check that the factory recovers what the gate test promised.
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Steel and other industry
Rolling mill productionStainless fabricationTextile processingSilver jewellery job work
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AI
Price trend analysis and recovery anomaly alerts.
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Cost
One-time cost. A year of AMC free.
One-time
Development cost, agreed before work starts
1 year
Of AMC included free after go-live
Yours
Source code and data, with no per-user fee
