Potato Chips

Introduction

  Already there has been a boom in the emer­gence of convenience food products in Bangladesh in the last seven years. Among ready to serve convenience food product that have come to dominate modern day metro politian living potato wafers take the first place. Potato chips and wafers are the most com­mon and convenient form of potato snack.

Product

   Potato chips are obtained by processing of po­tato after subjecting it in a sequence of operation. It is a crisp snack food has wide application such as snack or coctail snack with meat or fish for picnic; car rides, tea party or improvised dinner. The com­position of food are water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium and Iron etc.

Standards & Specification

.  Potato chips, wafers, crips potato slicks etc. have become phenomenally popular among the ur­ban population of Bangladesh in the last few years. Though potato chips had been quite popular, among rural elites on some special occasion, but the consumption of branded chips is almost to negligible value. Within last few years potato snacks especially potato wa­fers have been so far marketing with success in big cities. While the semi-urban city population have shown an enthusiastic response a stirring of poten­tial consumption can be sensed from entire urban area.

Suggested Capacity

   The minimum economic capacity for Potato Chips is 900 MT. On two shift basis.

Land & Building

   The unit requires about 2000 sq. mtrs. of land with covered -area of 1200 sq. mtrs.

Materials

The requirement of raw materials are

1. Potato (Fresh)

2. Refined vegetable oils

3. Flavour etc.

Utilites

   The unit will require a total connected load of 70 KVA. and a maximum demand of 50 KVA. Water requirement is about 25,000 KL. per annum.

Manufacturing Process

Manufacturing Process

   Potato chips are obtained by processing of po­tato after subjecting it in a sequence of operations such as peeling, cutting and slicing, washing, sort­ing, dewatering, frying in edible oil with flavouring agents and salt cooling and packing.

Plant & Machinery

3. Potato skin removing machine.

2.  Cutting machine for potato slices & potato sticks with semi automatic feeding funnel.

3.  Fine cut slicing disk 1.5 mm and 2mm for the cutting of potatos slice

4.  Industry Oven.

5.  Cooling belt conveyor for potato crisps & stick length 3800 mm.

6.  Complete automatic wafers filling-seeding & packaging machine.

7.  Feeder hoper 500 kg/hr capacity

8.  Salt Doser.

9.  Shaker.

10.  Slice washer.

11.  Spice feeder.

. Personnels

The unit requires to employ about 50 persons including staff for office and factory for production supervision and administration.

Estimated Cost of the Project

The project cost for setting up a unit to manu­facture 900 MT, per annum is estimated as follows :

1.  Land & Site development                         $14285.71

2.  Building                                                    $64285.71

3.  Plant & Machinery                                   $185714.28

4.  Technical know-how & engineering

fees                                                               $7142.8

 

5.  Other misc. fixed assets                            $57142.85

6.  Preliminary & preoperative

expenses                                                       $28571.42

7.  Margin money for working capital          $71428.57

8.  Contingecies                                            $28571.42

 TOTAL                                                       $457142.85

Suggested means of financing

1. Long term loan                                         $285714.25

2. State cash subsidy                                    $42857.14

3. Promoters capital                                     $128571.42

TOTAL                                                       $ 457142.85

 Subsidy is taken as 15% of the Fixed Capital Investment, however it varies from  state to state, rang­ing from 10% to 25% depending upon the category of identified backward area.