INTRODUCTION

MBA course curriculam at UNIVERSITY KERALA includes the mix of

hypothetical as well as master of facts knowledge. This course had been able
to establish itself as a superior platform among different programs of the
entire management facility. The Interenship rendered the great opportunity
to the student to develop their skill through practical knowledge.
Internship is the process of job training for professional
careers. Internships offer students a period of practical experience , is
valuable to students as means of allowing experience how studies are added
in the “ Real Organization World” , such of these program helps the students
to develop their career in a new way. Also , internship is an opportunity to
observe, learn and understand the corporate culture, acquire knowledge and
skills in the respective field which helps the students in their further career
development.
In the Internship time , each students interpersonal skills
and communications skills are highly developed to sustain freely in this era.
To cope up with the changing environment internship is a platform for
gaining greater knowledge to perform effectively with working experience.
As a whole, internship program brings us a corporate culture, develops our
public relationship and provides us an excellent working conditions.
The report is prepared on the basis of one month practical
experience at KERALA STATE CASHEW WORKERS APEX
INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY (CAPEX) that helps a lot to
learn about the practical situation of a company and implement theoretical
knowledge in to practical and realistic work environment.
 OBJECTIVES
The internship program plays a lead role in gaining practical knowledge and
in developing our confidence level. This study is aimed at providing me in
valuable practical knowledge with the consideration of my theoretical
knowledge. Objectives of my work is to gain sufficient knowledge about
working system of the organization.

The main objectives of internship are:

 To gain practical knowledge and exposure in the organization.

 To familiarized with the business practices

 To understand the major functions of the organization

 To understand culture of the organization

 To fill the gap between the theory and practices

 To analyse the practical implication of theoretical knowledge acquired

during the MBA program.

 SCOPE
The scope of the study is only limited to this head office, The report should
be covered some functional areas CAPEX . The report limits itself to
understanding the activities of various departments rather than aiming for an
extensive analysis of the entire activities handled by CAPEX . It was beyond
the scope of this report to study the entire process of each and every
department because of feasibility and time considerations.

 The internship in CAPEX is an attempt to understand how the cashew

sector in our country works and its importance in future

 The internship also facilitate in-depth interaction with top and middle

level managers of the unit to understand the parameters affecting the

performance of the organization.

 The study will help to understand the trends in exports and imports of
cashew in our country
 INDUSTRY PROFILE
Cashew , Anarcadium Ocidentale is the leader in the edible nuts. The word
cashew is derived from the Portugese name of similar pronounciation
“caju”, which is in turn , comes from the Tupi-indian word “acaju”.

Cashew is a tropical evergreen plant, belonging to the family of

Anacardiaceous known for its seed that are consumed worldwide. This plant
is actually a small to medium sizes tree with a single trunk and thick leaves.
The sweet flavored nuts like seeds are obtained from the bottom of the false
fruits of this tree , which is termed as cashew Apples. The outer covering of
the seeds are toxic and is hence removed before consuming the seed. These
kidney shaped kernels are of different grades , sizes and colours. The cashew
tree is curious plant with multiple uses , yet we are only familiar with one its
fruits , the cashew nuts.

The Indian cashew industry is one of the few industries in the

country which is export oriented. Small quantitics of cashew kernels were
exported from india even before the fist World War in 1914. But the real
break came when cashew started appearing on the glohal market towards the
middle of 1920's, when packing of cashew kernels were packed in wooden
cases lined with newspapers. Being highly susceptible to infection, this
mode of packing resulsed in deterioration in the quality by the time kerncls
reached the destination.
 In the middle of 1920's, two countries dominated the trade This was
hecause, in India, kemels were introduced entirely from raw muts grown
within the country. It was with the emergence of East Africa as a supplier
that the trade in raw nuts started. In these days, the cashew industry depends
mostly on the raw nuis imported from various African countries.

The expansion of the global market for the cashew kernels in the
1960's promoted India to adopt a systematic and integrated approach
towards developing the cashew economy in the mid 1960’s the government
launched a cashew development programme and in 1966 a separate
Directorate of cashew nut development was established under the ministry
of agriculture. As a result, India witnessed a remarkable expansion in the
area under cultivation although the processing industry is still heavily
development on imported raw nuts.

India is the largest area holder of the crop. Cultivation of cashew

in india confines mainly to peninsular areas. It is grown in kerala ,
Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra along the east coast . To a limited extent it
is being cultivated in Chattisgarh, Eastern States (Assam, Manipur, Tripura,
Meghalaya and Nagaland) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

In india , cashew occupies an area of 7.70 lakhs MT and an

average productivity of 710 kg of these 2.001 lakhs of the plantations
development from the beginning of the eight planes alone have with supplier
varieties.

Apart from the foreign exchange earnings of the industry, it

plays a major role in the processing and agrarian sector , employing over 3
lakhs persons with 95% of them being women.
 COMPANY PROFILE
Kerala State Cashew workers Apex Industrial Co-operative society Limited
(CAPEX) was registered on 09-09-1984 under Kerala Co-operative
Societies Act as an Apex Society of cashew workers primary society with
Headquarters at Kollam. The main object of the Apex society is to
commercial basis, rendering assistance to affiliated, societies in the matter of
organize cashew industry in the state on procurement and marketing of
kernels and other items produced in the factories of affiliated societies. All
these are done to provide the continuous employment to the poor people
engaged in cashew processing.95% are women workers out of which 35%
are from backed community.

CAPEX is the only co-operative organization in cashew processing sector

The employee strength of the 10 factories are above 5000. CAPEX is de
largest cashew processing unit in the Co-operative Sector under Industries
Department, Government of Kerala. CAPEX contribute a major portion to
the total production in Kerala.

An Apex society under the name CAPEX was formed with the five member
societies and registered as No. IND (ST) 12 with Headquarters at Kollam
The Board of Directors of the Apex society consists of 11 Directors
including the chairman nominated by the Government.

All the major trade unions were represented in Board of Directors of the
Apex Society, which ensured peaceful labour relation. It provides
employment for above 6000 laborers offering work for 230 days in a year.
particularly in a seasonal industry like cashew nut.
The Kerala Cashew Nut Act of 1981 empowered the Government of Kerala
to provide the trade in Raw Cashew Nuts by the state to the execution of all
others by procurement and sales thereof at fair price within the state. The
CAPEX acted as the sole agent of the government from 1989 to 1991 the
government decided to resume this policy for a successive fourth year.
From 1988 the CAPEX become the authorized agent of the government for
the procurement of cashews.

CAPEX opened 60 drying yards with go downs for the collections

frying and storing of raw nuts purchased by the sub- agent according to
necessity, each yard was mannered by a yard manager assisted by one more
yard assisted.

CAPEX was the first company to start the flexible packing system in
the cashews in Kerala, which by now has been acknowledged as one of the
best innovation for the cashew industry on a whole.

Since they believe that the first level of quality depends on the raw
materials , they take great care in procurement of raw cashew nut in addition
to keeping a strict vigil at every stage of processing . For over a quarter of a
century CAPEX cashew industries have earned an image of product quality
which has come to the accepted as the benchmark in global standards.

VISION
Promoting kerala cashew kernels globally
MISSION
 To organize kerala cashew industry
 Rendering assistance to affiliated society
 To provide employement opportunities to women
 ACTIVITIES OF CAPEX

 As part of modernization 7 CAPEX factories were fully reconstructed

including installation of new Chimneys, Bathrooms , Roasting
machines, Day care centre , Yards for drying raw nuts etc….
Reconstruction work at the rest of 3 factories are in full swing
 Replaced old traditional bormas at our 10 factories and installed 15
electric bormas at factories of CAPEX to reduce and nullify the
quality loss ; and thus to improve profit margin.
 As a part of modernizations , CAPEX have purchased two modern
packing machines:
 Modern flexi packing machines
 Modern coasting and machines
 The computerization works at 10 factories is in full swing . The
roasting capacity of CAPEX has increased from 40M.T/day to
60M.T/day
 CAPEX is now able to procure maximum quantity of Kerala origin
raw nuts at 10 factories of CAPEX to increase the productivity
 A project for installation solar panels at 9 factories at CAPEX has
been approved by the government of Kerala with technical assistance
from ANERT.