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Name of the project: |
Enhancing the Environmental Performance and Competitiveness of Vegetable Oil Industry in Andhra Pradesh – Waste Minimization (WM) Assessment, Demonstration of WM Measures and Training |
Program Area: |
E&E |
Country: |
India |
Project Length: |
December 2008 – July 2009 |
Sponsor: |
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) |
Contact: |
sobhan@winrockindia.org |
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| Background |
The problem of industrial pollution until now has been addressed by end-of-pipe (EOP) technologies such as waste treatment and pollution control devices. These technologies imposed a huge cost both capital costs and running costs on industries eroding the competitiveness of local industry. In the era of increasing competitiveness among the industry, the need of shifting environmental management and policies from ‘cure’ to ‘prevention’ and EOP technologies to waste minimization techniques has become inevitable.
India is the third big player in the edible oil market in the world. The oil extraction units in India can broadly be classified into small scale expellers, solvent extractors, oil refiners and vanaspati manufacturers. These oil mills crush oil seeds and extract oil, 70% of which is sold in the open market. The remaining 30% is refined and sold as branded oil. The share of Andhra Pradesh in oil production is quite significant in the country. In Andhra Pradesh, there is a big conglomeration of oil industries of large, medium, and small scale and mainly produce sunflower, groundnut, palm oil, rice bran, and cotton seed oil. The edible oil units are mostly concentrated as clusters in Adoni (Kurnool District, around 15 units), Gooty Road (Anantapur District, around 10 units), Kattedan (Rangareddy District, 15 units), Mahbubnagar (4 units), and Kakinada (East Godavari District, 8 units). |
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| Objectives |
The specific objectives of the proposed project are:
- To promote the adoption of WM measures to tackle environmental pollution in edible oil units and promote more resource-efficient processes and operations, particularly, in the fields of water pollution and solid wastes, thereby positively influencing the local and global climate change.
- To enhance the performance and competitiveness of Small & Medium scale edible oil units in Adoni by raising environmental awareness.
- To build the capacity of the targeted beneficiary units by training to adopt WM approach on a sustainable basis to reap benefits.
- To develop and promote environmental actions those are instrumental in alleviating poverty, improving health, and safety conditions.
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Activities |
- Conduct diagnostic assessment of the Edible Oil industry clusters in Adoni, Gooty Road, and Mahbubnagar in Andhra Pradesh.
- Selection of the representative edible oil manufacturing units from the above-mentioned clusters for conducting waste minimization (WM) studies.
- Conduct WM studies in the selected units.
- Identify WM measures; conduct techno-economic feasibility and environmental impacts for the identified measures; screen out and prioritize the WM measures and; recommend the final WM measures for implementation in the respective units.
- Selection of Local Service Providers(LSPs).
- Demonstrate the no-cost WM measures in the these units..
- Conduct capacity building training program in the cluster on WM opportunities and benefits.
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