Project Profile 153 · New business vertical

MAHP — Millets & Health Products.

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Why MAHP

Turning millets into ready-to-eat, nutrient-dense products.

Millet value-added products transform raw grains into convenient, nutrient-dense and gluten-free alternatives to standard wheat and rice. This profile — the 153rd in an ongoing project-profile series — sets out a bankable route into three popular categories: ready-to-eat snacks (puffs, extruded flakes, khakhras), breakfast and instant mixes (idli, dosa, pongal and malted health drinks), and baked goods (cookies, bread and cakes).

The profile was originally identified and structured by CR Business Solutions, a Salem-based consulting organisation that scouts new, profitable small-business ideas and helps entrepreneurs secure bank loans backed by government subsidy. They publish these profiles — covering plant & machinery, raw materials and process — as an ongoing series on their blog, in both English and Tamil. MAHP is entry 153; 14 more from the same series are rounded up further down this page.

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MAHP — Millets and Health Products project profile
Project cost
₹6.50 Lakhs
Indicative cost to set up the unit, per the CR Business Solutions project profile.
Government subsidy
25%
Available through the PMEGP and PM-FME schemes for eligible applicants.
Product range

What the unit can produce.

A single line, sized for the project cost above, can carry the full range below — from everyday flours and mixes to packaged snacks and bakery items.

Behind the profile

CR Business Solutions.

A consulting organisation based in Salem, Tamil Nadu, that identifies profitable small-business opportunities and guides entrepreneurs through the process of turning them into funded, running units.

Who

A project-identification consultancy

They scout viable, small-to-mid scale manufacturing ideas across sectors and package each one into a ready-to-use project profile.

What

Bank loans with government subsidy

They guide entrepreneurs toward bank financing layered with applicable government subsidy schemes, so the funding gap on a new unit is smaller.

How

A public project-profile series

Each profile — plant & machinery suppliers, raw materials, process and scheme eligibility — is published on their blog as part of an ongoing, numbered series; MAHP is entry 153.

Flagship product

ABC Malt Powder.

A popular, nutrient-rich health drink mix made from a powerhouse combination of Apple, Beetroot and Carrot (ABC). It serves as a natural, caffeine-free alternative to traditional tea, coffee or processed energy drinks — making it a strong seller with both kids and adults, and a natural anchor product for the wider MAHP range.

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The wider series

More project profiles from CR Business Solutions.

MAHP is entry 153 in a long-running series. Each profile below follows the same format — a project idea, its plant & machinery, and the bank-loan subsidy scheme it qualifies for. Tap a title to expand it.

152Freeze-Dried Food Unit
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Uses freeze-drying (lyophilisation) to pull moisture from cooked food under vacuum, keeping structure, flavour and nutrients intact without refrigeration for years at a stretch. Aimed at ready-to-eat Indian classics — dal makhani, paneer butter masala, biryani, idli-sambar — that just need hot water to serve, for the travel, camping and export markets.

₹100 Lakhs + ₹20L W/C25% NEEDS / Food Processing Scheme
151Cow Dung Prakritik Paints
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An eco-friendly, low-cost wall paint made from cow dung, modernising a traditional Indian wall-coating practice into a processed building material for India's fast-growing construction sector.

₹30 Lakhs + ₹10L W/C25–35% PMEGP / NEEDS / AABC
150Petrol Bunk
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A retail fuel outlet built on India's scale as one of the world's largest oil importers and its steadily rising vehicle population.

₹85 Lakhs + ₹30L W/C25–35% NEEDS / AABC
149Saree Polishing & Ironing
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A service unit that restores worn silk sarees — cleaning, starching, polishing and professional ironing — so costly hand-woven pieces such as Kanjivaram and Banarasi sarees can look new again rather than being discarded.

₹4.50 Lakhs25–35% PMEGP
148Gold Casting Works
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A jewellery-casting unit built around 3D-printed wax mould making and lost-wax vacuum casting, tapping into India's gems & jewellery sector — one of the largest in the world by consumption.

₹18 Lakhs25% PMEGP
147Precast Concrete Products
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Manufacture of precast concrete compound walls and drainage rings, valued for fast installation, fire resistance and steady demand from residential, commercial and infrastructure projects.

₹5 Lakhs25% PMEGP
146Fast Food Truck
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A mobile quick-service kitchen — a "restaurant on wheels" — serving sandwiches, burgers, fries and other fast-food staples at a lower setup cost than a fixed restaurant.

₹8.20 Lakhs (incl. W/C)25–35% PMEGP
145Jaggery Unit
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Traditional sugarcane jaggery production: cane is crushed, the juice boiled down with no chemical additives, and the leftover bagasse burned as the unit's own fuel.

₹27 Lakhs25–35% PMEGP
144Country Chicken Poultry
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Free-range "naatu kozhi" poultry farming, valued for quick growth and feed efficiency — a steady income source for rural households, with manure sold on as fertiliser.

₹10 Lakhs (incl. W/C)25–35% PMEGP
143MS Wire Nail
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Mild-steel wire nails drawn down from HB wire rod through successive gauges and polished to finish — an everyday fastener with constant demand across construction and carpentry.

₹13.75 Lakhs (₹10L W/C)25–35% PMEGP + 25% NEEDS
141Country Chicken Chick Hatchery
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A rural poultry breed-development hatchery for 1,100 birds, run under the National Livestock Mission (NLM) to expand local country-chicken stock.

₹47 Lakhs (₹5L W/C)50% (SIDBI)
140Banana Chips Manufacturing
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Deep-fried and dried banana chip snacks, riding the growth of India's ready-to-eat snack segment and rising demand for fruit-based processed foods.

₹16 Lakhs25% PMEGP & PM-FME
139Textile Open-End Paper Tube
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Cardboard paper-tube manufacturing supplying textile mills with bobbin tubes, plus general packaging and shipping tubes used across industries.

₹32 Lakhs25% PMEGP & NEEDS
138Dairy Farm
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A dairy farming unit built on India's position as the world's largest milk producer by volume, with plans to keep growing its share of global output.

₹10 Lakhs25–35% PMEGP

Source

Figures, product lists and scheme details on this page are adapted from CR Business Solutions' project-profile series (numbers 138–153), published at crbusinesssolutions.blogspot.com. CR Business Solutions is a Salem-based consulting organisation; profiles are summarised here for reference, and full plant & machinery, process and scheme detail should be confirmed with them directly.

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