Annapurna Cottage Industries

Marketing:
The existing marketing channels developed over the last 30 years will be harnessed further:

• Appointment of Super stockiest at state level
• 10 stockists under the umbrella of super level
• 200 retails out-lets

Institution sale: Temples, Hospitals, Restaurants, Hotels, Tourism spots etc.

App Development:

• We propose an app by which lot of sales personals, students and representatives will benefit. This is one of the best way of sales promotion.
• Presently we are having a channel by which we export leaf plates to Germany, Singapore, Malaysia and USA.
• Process- Flow of Operations at the cluster level

The process of the cluster of SHC’s from the villages with level 300 population is as follows:

• Raw leaves collection from the forest
• Grading of leaves, drying in cool & clean place
• Hand stitching, and thread stitching on sewing machines
• Such stitching leaves will be used for the top layer
• The bottom layer will be 8-10 microns bio-degradable low density polyethylene with three ply corrugated sheet at the bottom
• These plates are pressed for 5 to 8 sec at 120 oc for better curing and bacteria saddle activity
• Trimming, shaping is done as gentle press

Role of Annapurna:

• Adequate Training to the beneficiaries
• Help in collection & selection of raw material from the forest
• Identification of location to set-up the unit
• Supply of required machinery
• Maintenance Guidance
• Supply of other raw material from mandal HQ
• Collection of finished Goods
• Payment process to the members of the cluster through bank
• Welfare benefits like 5 lakhs insurance, ESI and PF
• Training to cluster Members on the environment Protection in the process of picking up the forest leaves.