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In India mustard sell for Rs 30 per kg and mustard oil sells for Rs 80 per liter. Mustard seed yields 33% oil. It implies by milling 3kg (-Rs 90) mustard seed, the oil mill gets 1 liter oil (+Rs 80). Directly there is Rs. 10 loss per liter of mustard oil. Moreover there are expenses on labour...

Is it because of high moisture content or abundant supply? Do the rice mills buy rice during the harvest period, then store it for long term and produce rice throughout the year?

If you see mandi prices in internet, you may notice that the price of a commodity varies from mandi to mandi. In many cases the price of a commodity in a mandi is around double of the price of the same commodity in a nearby mandi (100 km away) in same state. It seems to be a business...

As in rice milling we get rice bran and broken rice as byproducts that can be used as animal feed, is there any protein/carbohydrate rich byproduct of dal mill that can be used as animal feed?

How long factory dried brewers spent grain can be stored without getting spoilt? At what price the breweries are selling dried spent grain?

In India maize yield is little above 2,000 kg/hectare whereas in the USA it is more than 10,000 kg/hectare. Suppose in an Indian field, we apply enough irrigation, use hybrid seeds and use equal quantity of fertilizers & pesticides as the Americans do, will our maize yield reach 10,000 kg/hectare?

What kinds of instruments are used?

Logs of how much length should be cut out of a teak or kumil tree? At what length a tree can be divided to ease transportation without wastage of wood?

What are its uses and how it is done?

I considered opening a dairy farm. But what deterred me is slaughtering the male calves. I am a Hindu and it is against my religion to sell the male calf to butcher. The dairy breed males are of no use. Can you suggest me some breeds which gives good quantity of milk and the males are also useful.

What is the approximate price per tissue cultured sapling of teak?

What is the feed conversion ratio of pigs particularly the Long White Yorkshire breed? FCR is the amount of feed needed (kg) to produce 1 kg of meat. The cost of pig feed is about Rs.18/kg and the price of live weight pig is about Rs.80/kg.

I am thinking of starting a large scale pig farm with about 200 pigs. My fear is that the cost of feeding the pigs may become more than their sale price as I will have to buy the feed completely. I am planning to feed oil cakes (by product of local mustard oil mills), rice bran, molasses...