9.  PRABHAVA CASHEW PROCESSORS:
 Belongs to Srinivas Group of Industries
 Proprietor: M Vedhavyasa Prabhu
 2nd cashew factory started by Srinivas Group
 At present 5 cashew factories
 Presently owning two 3-star hotels

10. Prabhav Cashew Processors :
The company was founded by M Subbanna
Prabhu And Komala S Prabhu.
It was established in the year 1988.
The Company was commenced with 35 workers
at the beginning and currently having 250
workers.
Initial capital was Rs. 40,00,000.
At present the company having 15 male workers
and rest are female workers.
The capacity of production was 4 bags per day
and now it is raised up to 100 bags per day.
The working hours of employees is 8 hours per
day.

14. Plant location :
• Availability of workers
• Availability of land at a cheaper rate
• Availability of all other basic facilities,
like water , power, etc,.
• Transportation Facility
• Nearness to market

16. Raw Materials : Raw Cashews
Source : Tanzania, Nigeria, Kerala,
Maharashtra, Goa,
Karnataka.
Machinery : Bought from Mangalore.
Various Machines
Used : Boiler, Cutting machine, Hot
chamber, Metal Detector,
Weighing machine, Packing
machines

18. DRYING PEELING GRADING
HOT CHAMBER
ROASTING OR BORMA PACKING
DRYING
CUTTING &
COOLING DISPATCH
SHELLING

20. DRYING
For two Days nuts exposed to sun till
they are dried and then dried nuts are
stored in the store room
The sun shine drying loss may come to 7%
to 8%
This increases the cost of raw cashew nut
The sun light changes color of cashew nut
and turns to brown.

21. Once the color is changed its know that
the cashew nuts are dried.
This is done to remove the oil contain
from the shell.
Then the dried nuts are filled up in the
bags and are stored in the store room
until the next process begins.
This may be for one day or so depending
upon the stock

25. The roasting of the raw Cashew Nut is done
by steaming roasting process.
This process is carried on for 20 minutes at
90 degree centigrade.
Here firewood is used for the process of
generating steam for roasting the Cashew
Nuts.

26. In this
10 min
process
the After 8
an
steam to 10
estimate This
which we minutes,
4 cases These roasting
had we
of 75 Kgs raw process
released should
each are cashew is done
will stop the
put into nuts are by 4
come out steam
vessel roasted. male
from the and door
and workers.
door of must be
steam is
the opened.
being
vessel.
released.

31. Once the raw nuts are roasted they
are taken to a separate room and
they are being spread on the floor.
Here they are kept for two to three
days so that they are cooled
Once they are cooled they are
transferred to the next process.

34. The supervisor of this department will
issue roasted raw nuts to the shelling
department for cutting purpose.
The entire cutting process is handed by
women workers.
In one machine two women are working
and they can work around 8 to
10kgcashew nuts per day.

35. Then these nuts are fed into the hand
operated cutting machines to separate
kernels from the shells
In case the used nuts are of good quality
we are sure of getting 30 percent yield
and 2 to 3 percent pieces.
Next day these kernels are transferred to
Borma department.

39. Each cashew shell is split open and the
cashew inside is immediately taken out
by hand.
Shelling is a technique that can be
relatively easily learnt. Strength is not
required for breakage of the shell.
Correct positioning of the nut and the
ability to hit the nut in the correct
position, so as to allow its breakage is
most important.

40. Quality control and inspection are
therefore critical in ensuring that shells
produce kernels of the highest quality
During the shelling process the workers
use Castro oil in order to keep their
hands safe .

43. The Cashew nuts which are cut, are
taken to a hot chamber for Borma
drying.
Borma which look like a rectangular box
in which 8 stands each with 60
aluminum trey (480 trays) are there.
They are loading 4kgs of cashew kernels
in one tray (total :1920 kgs in box) and
the door is closed.

44. The shell cake of raw cashew nut is used
for the fuel purpose
The door is locked & the heat is
generated at 81 degree centigrade & it
is released to Borma box for continuous
8 hours.
After that cashew kernels are taken to
separate room for cooling for a day
This process continues for a whole day
This entire process of Borma is handled
by 2 male workers

48. This process consist of 93 workers. So major
portion of employees are working in this
process. Average peeling to one employee is
10 kg.
Here the workers remove husk from the
cashew nuts with the help of a small knife.
These are transferred to Grading section very
next day.

50. This is the process where the cashew
nuts are categorized and they are given
different grades.
Depending upon the grades the rates are
being set.

51. Here are some of the types of Grading:
•Wholes 120
•Wholes 140
•Wholes 180
•Wholes 240
•Wholes 300
•Wholes 350
•Wholes440

52. Scorched
wholes
Scorched
butts
Scorched
splits
Desert
splits
Large white
pieces
Small white
pieces
Baby bits

53. In this
process the Once this is
cashew nuts done the This is done
This is the
are being cleaned nuts to see that,
final process
passed in a are passed there are no
before
machine through the unwanted
packing.
where the metal particles.
dust is detector.
removed out.

55. Weighing
• This is done for the • Here the nuts are filled
purpose of packing. in containers, bags and
pouches as per the
requirement. once this
done the weighed
container are passed to
the next process.

58. Packing is an important activity as it
contains the final product. Packing must
be done in such a way that it should
convince and attract the customers to
buy the product.

59. Packing
Machines

60. Flexi bags:- Nuts are
filled in the packets
and the air in the
packets is replaced wit
carbon de oxide. this is
done in order to keep
the final product in
good condition. this
type of packing is done
when the goods are
meant for export.

61. Dispatching
• Here the packed cashew nuts are being
dispatched as per the orders received.

63. The company has done a remarkable
improvement today. Even though in the time
of recession, the company has maintained
same level of demand from domestic and
international customers. This is mainly
because of the brand and the quality it has
maintained.
They brings together the combination
of various processing units, professional
management. More over it holds the policy
of using the available resources in the most
efficient manner.