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COMPANY PROFILE

The main products of the KCMMF Ltd are milk products such as dairy milk, ice creams, ghee, butter and cattle feed. There are two cattle feed plants under KCMMF Ltd. They are situated at Pattanakkad (Alleppey) and Malampuzha.

History of Cattle Feed Plant, Pattanakkad

Cattle breeding is a profitable business of middle class of Kerala. The milk business of the state largely depends on cattle breeding. The shortage of fresh grass and hay urges to switch on to cattle feeds. 99% of the farmers depend on different brands of cattle feed. Cattle feed plant Pattanakkad can be described as an important well-established unit among the cattle feed plants in India. Milma cattle feed plant at Pattanakkad is set up under operation flood 11 programmers with a production capacity of 100 tones of balanced cattle feed per day commissioned on 23/2/1985 under Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation. This is a co-operative venture established with a solid Kerala govt shares. The main aim of this venture is to supply superior quality balanced cattle feed to farmers at minimum rate.

In 1982, the govt acquired land for factory. In December 1984, plant construction completed with an expenditure of Rs7392464. Sri.K.R.Gowariamma (Hon. Minister of Agriculture in Kerala) at the time so she was the minister of Industries in Kerala asked Mr. Kurian (Founder and Director of NDDB) to prepare a plan and project report of establishment of plant around Cherthala. After an extensive survey of the milk producing areas, Mr. Varghese Kurian set up a plant with the help of NDDB. The plant was also set up under operation flood11. Now it is one of the fastest growing public sector companies under the govt of Kerala with a capacity to produce 300 metric tones of cattle feed per day. It is running smoothly and profitably. The starting capacity of the plant was 100 tones/day in 1985. Subsequently raised to 300 tones. Updated computerized electronic machines are used for the production. The batching method conducted using computer ensures the quality
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of the product. There is a dust extracting system, which ensures dustless healthy environment in the plant.

Mission
Our mission is farmers prosperity through consumer satisfaction.

Vision
To constantly strive to provide valued customers with the highest quality cattle feed with the best standards of service by our passionate and focussed workforces using state of the art technology ensuring sustained growth and simultaneously ensuring dairy farmers delight by better realisation of milk price and offering needed service at his/her doorstep.

Quality
We, at Milma Cattle Feed Plants are commited to produce and distribute quality and balanced cattle feed at the lowest price possible for satisfaction of customers in our fully automated plants. For this goal we plan and implement strict quality control management and continual improvement by use of good quality raw materials and strict manufacturing process to ensure that Dairy farmers get balanced cattle feed, at their doorstep.

DEPARTMENTAL PROFILE
There are 4 main departments and 3 other department in Milma cattle feeds. They are;
1. 2. 3. 4.

Personnel Department Production Department Marketing Department Finance Department

The other three departments are:5. Quality control Department 6. Stores Department 7. Purchase Department

PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT
The Personnel department deals with the managing and controlling of persons in an organization. Planning personnel requirements, analyzing performance, salary administration is done with the help of information system. The requirement of staff of the C.F plant is done from external and internal sources. The organization provides short-term training for present employees for the purpose of introducing the new systems or techniques. The main functions of Personnel and Administration Department : Recruitment Appointment and induction Wage and salary administration Promotion Transfer Labour welfare and safety Industrial relation Disciplinary action Statutory and legal matters

General administration

Recruitment
In the whole federation, till 1995, milma was doing recruitment by itself with the recruitment policy approved by the government through employment exchange. For certain posts such as A.N.O, paper notification was given for recruitment. In 1995, State government passed a legislation to handover the recruitment function of major co-operative organisations to P.S.C. Thogh the state government has passed tthe legislation no recruitment has been done by P.S.C till this date .Now only temporary appointment is done. Appointment and induction Induction training is given to those employees who need that. Workers do not need such training

Training
The training and development organization in Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation is the National Dairy Development Board. Thus board provides training and development for both managers and workers..

Remuneration
Office staff and technicians get consolidated salary that is at fixed rate and workers are getting daily wages. Office staff gets basic pay of Rs.6000 and above. It include BP+HRA+DA. Increment is given once in a year to permanent employees.

Bonus
17% of wages is given as bonus. Employees having salary above 7500 are not given bonus.

PF
As per Provident Fund Act, employee contribution to PF is 12% and employer contribution is also 12%.

ESI
As per Employee state insurance act, employee contribution is 1.75% and employer contribution is 4.75%. Employees having salary above 15000 are not given ESI.

Allowances
Workers are given night shift allowance, washing allowance and uniform allowance.

Advance
Onam advance is given.

Promotion
In Milma, promotion is given in every 5 years and grade is given in every 8 years when promotion is not possible.

Trade union
The trade union means any combination formed temporary or permanent for the purpose of regulating the relation between employer and employee. There are 4 unions existing in Milma. They are INTUC, CITU, AITUC, and BMS etc.

Workers welfare
Employees welfare organization stands for providing welfare at the time of special events like death, accident, marriage etc. Employees welfare organization provides;

Medical facilities Education helps Canteen facilities ESI Lunch and restroom Organizing culture festival programme Award for good service etc

Safety measures
For ensuring safety of workers at plant they are providing the following such as gloves, shoes, first aid facility, dust extraction system in the plant, which help to suck dust arising at the time of production.

Leave
10 casual leaves and 15 sick leaves for permanent employees.

Earned leaves one for 11 working days. Earned leaves can be surrendered and carry forwarded.

Workers PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT


Production is the process of making inputs into outputs or transformation of raw materials into finished products. The plant work as 3 shifts, each has a time period of 8 hours.

Raw materials
The quality of the finished product depends up on the applicability or use of standard raw materials. The purchase committee at the head office entertains the main purchase of raw materials to the cattle feed plant. The purchase committee and the purchase manager also fix the quantity, quality and role of purchase of commodities.

The raw materials used for production are:

DORB( De Oiled Rice Bean)-Red and White Coconut Cake Mineral Mixture Molasses Palm Kernel Silk Cotton Cake Sago Waste Varagu Bran Coffee Husk Cotton Seed Extraction Rice Polish Calcite Salt Urea Bentonite Wheat Bran Tamarind Seed Extraction

The main raw material used is DORB(white). The advantage of white DORB over red is that it has more oil content. The main sources of raw materials are collected from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andra Pradesh.

Machines involved in Cattle Feed Production


a. Grinding machine

This machine is used for grinding raw materials like Jowar, Maize etc.
b. Mixing Machine

This is used for mixing the raw materials.


c. Pellet machine

This machine is used for cattle feed as pellet.


d. Air cooler

For cooling the pellets before packing.


e. Bagging packing machine

This machine is used for packing the cattle feed in each bag.
f. Aspiration system

This machine is used for sucking the dust which is arising out at the time of production of cattle feed.
g. Electronic controller

For controlling and giving necessary electricity to each machine, this machine is used.

Production Process
The firm follows a highly mechanized and systematic production process using the most modern machinery and supervising the manpower, effectively. All production processes are carried out by computer controlled machines. The production process involves the following steps.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Supply of Raw materials Dumping Batching Molasses mixing Pellet feed production Cooling
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7. Bagging 8. Stitching 9. Handling 10. Distributing

MARKETING DEPARTMENT
The company has a special department for marketing their products. As it marketed only 10% cattle feed through private dealers.

Marketing system
Sales forecasting, sales planning, customer and sales analysis are done with the help of computer system. The transactions are sales orders, promotions orders etc done under the systems. The marketing operational control activities include the timing and training of the sales force, the day-to-day scheduling of sales and promotion efforts. Sales volume by region, product, customers etc are include under the marketing systems.

Marketing channel
A channel of distribution may be defined as an organized network of agencies and institutions which in combination, perform all of the activities required to link producers with users and users with producers in order to accomplish the marketing task. 70% of the product is marketed through the societies (APCOS) 20% of the product is marketed through govt agencies 10% of the product is marketed through private dealers Government more prefers Milma Cattle Feed Plant to private feed plants. More government orders are given to CFP. Kerala Feeds, a recently established government company

PRODUCT PROFILE
Milmamin Vitaminised mineral mixture called Milmamin Milma Gomathy It is a pellet type of cattle feed and it is packed in 50 kg. Milmamin Milmamin is a vitaminised cattle feed. There is constant increase in the demand of this product from the market. This is packed in one kilogram.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT
The most important factor, which is required by an organization to run difficulty, is finance. Finance refers to the money or funds available to the firm. Finance is the central point of the business activity so it is known as the lifeblood of an organization. Importance of Finance

Finance refers to money or funds available to the firm. A business needs funds at every step to start a business to operate it and to expand or modernize its operators. Finance is required for the existence of a business. Sources of Fund

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In plant , Pattanakkad gets finance from the Canara bank, SBT, DCB. All the cheques are signed by the Senior manager. Preparation of Accounts

There are different types of accounting statements and accounts prepared by this department. The main accounting statements include:

Trading & Profit & Loss Account Balance sheet Bank Reconciliation Statement

Income tax assessment is done after one year, at the end of the financial year.

Audits of three types:


Internal audit - done every year Statutory audit- This is compulsory and done according to the companys act Tax audit - Audit of financial accounts for assessing tax.

Objectives of F.M

To ensure that owners are able to secure the maximum return on their investment. To ensure availability of sufficient fund at reasonable cost. To ensure effective utilization of funds. To ensure safety of funds through creation of reserve, reinvestment of profit etc.

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PURCHASE DEPARTMENT
The purchase department at CFP is a narrow one. The raw materials purchased for this unit are mainly from outside state. The order for purchase is produced according to the requirements from the stores. Milma Bhavans(Trivandrum), head office of Milma makes purchase orders to outside state for the two cattle feed plants i.e., Malampuzha & for Pattanakkad. The Head office carries out this function to take the advantage of bulk transaction. Purchase department of CFP deals only with local purchase, i.e, puchase of salt, urea etc.

STORES DEPARTMENT
The store section established adequate control over the raw materials, packing materials, finished products its storage and delivery etc. As a consignment of raw materials arrived before weight, a sample from each truck will be taken for analysis in the lab. After the result the load may be accepted or rejected. It accepted the truck can be weighed. The Senior Manager scrutinizes the parties invoice and enters the details in the computers. Immediately weighment slip will be prepared in triplicate. One will be used to the supplier through driver. One will be forwarded to cashier for payment of unloading materials.

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Warehouse:
The storage capacity of the wartehouse was not enough before. So the managementr hired a nearby theatre for keeping the stock. Later it proved uneconomical.Then they topped using that. During emergencies, i.e, when the raw materials are available at low cost, the plant uses the warehousing facility available in the Cherthala warehousing co-operation on rental basis.

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