B PLAN ON AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD PROCESSING – CASE WITH RESPECT TO FARM TO HOME B - PLAN

The basic understanding of this paper is to study the agricultural and food processing in dharwad district. An agricultural food processing sector is rapidly developing in India. It is a major sector which is giving profits for GDP and 70% of the people are depending on agriculture. Agriculture in food process is giving Business plan opportunities for the youth to come up with their innovative and creative ideas with updated technologies which it is also helping the farmers to gain profits to survive. Food processing is developing in its own way with nutrition food supply with quality and quantity based goods with hygiene, good packaging, cold storage facility, by preserving and delivering within a period of time. The idea of food processing mainly helping hands for the rural area people were they believe in agriculture. Agriculture is a backbone to live their life with livelihood. Food processing playing an important role in meeting the customer needs with a healthy supply of products.


Introduction
Food Processing Industry (FPI) in India is a sunrise sector that has gained reputation in the recent years. Easy availability of raw materials, changing lifestyle and favourable fiscal policies has given a considerable push to the industry's growth. FPI serves as a vital association between the agriculture and manufacturing sector of the company. Underpinning this link is critical to reduce wastage of agricultural raw materials, improve the value of agricultural produce by increasing shelf-life as weel as by stimulating the nutritive value of the food products and ensure remunerative prices to farmers as well as reasonable price to consumers.
Agricultural food process gives an opportunity to come up with business plan in the name of Farm to Home. Farm to Home is a start-up business which is basically a online vegetable and fruits selling business. Farm to Home enables farmers sell their produce products directly to retail shops, restaurants and individual customers. Farm to Home have a services of Business to Business and Business to Customer.

Farm to Home
Services Private Limited -Wholesaler of featured products, vegetables & other products in Karnataka. The company can have a network of more than 1,000 surrounding farmers. The portal also provides data feeds to these farmers about which crop to be grown where and when to grow and what fertilizer should be usedto get the optimal price from the market. It can work with farm produce organizations.
Farm to Home says, "Eating fruits and vegetables with harmful pesticides can cause deadly diseases like cancer". Therefore, startup delivers farm-fresh, organic, chemical-free and refrigerator-packed fruits and vegetables at customers' doorstep. Customers can place orders through the venture's customer care number or through its website.

Objective of Agricultural and Food Proceeding
The major objective of this B-plan is to help the farmers as we know that farmers are committing suicide because of the rise in the price level and the consumers end are not reaching them and also agents are making money by demanding high price for hybrid goods . We are trying to give minimum based price for farmers so they can afford and also give buyback assurance once the customer base grows. Mainly looking towards at North Karnataka farmers were they are facing problems with kalasabanduri in cities like: Hubli, Nargund, Navalgund and surrounding areas. And also making farmers to understand about the customers demand for supply of products and helping them to know what all are the required technologies to use in the agricultural sector.
 Our Mission: To provide Organic and chemical free Vegetables and Fruits to the Society and help to healthy society.  Our vision: A quality product.

Product
Product procurement process is responsible of Procurement team (W1). The team will start to procure from a farmer who is particularly assigned by Farm to Home. Team collects the vegetables and fruits. If all the requirements are available then product procurement is processed and product will arrive to Farm to Home. If vegetables and fruits are not available as per the indent requirements, collect required goods in APMC.

Inventory Management
Inventory Management process is also responsibility of Operation Manager. After delivering the orders, the next step is to weigh all the remaining goods. If all the goods are usable then it is stored in refrigerator. If goods are unusable, then it is treated as dump.