Starch occurs naturally in the plants and its percentage varies with the plant and also in different parts of the same plant. Corn (maize), sorghum, grain wheat, rice, potato, tapioca, arrow root and sago are among the important sources of natural starches. The grains of barley, rye, oat, and the millets are also employed in the production of starches. Starch is a group of polysacchrides, composed of glucopyranose units joined together by glucosidric linkages. The cereal starches, such as maize wheat, rice and sorghum, are recovered by several processes, of which the wet milling is by far the most important. The principal raw materials, used by the Indian Starch Industry are maize and tapioca. The byproducts of starch during the wet milling process are germ, gluten, cake steep liquor etc. Maize is grown in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Mysore, and Haryana. Starch is the key ingredient in Food Industry, Pharma Industry, Cattle Feed, Paper and Textile Industry. Starch market is driven mainly by the dynamics in Pharma, Food, Paper and Textile Industries. Apart from the above, starch and starch derivates are increasingly used in manufacture of ethanol to be blended with petroleum products. The continued price rise of crude oil prices in recent years, made the world to look for alternatives and in that process, most of the countries started blending of ethanol with petroleum in the ratio ranging from 5% to 25%. Production of starch and starch derivatives was unable to keep pace with the rising demand in the recent years. The Starch industry in India is thus poised to rapid strides in the coming years. New capacity creation can be thought of as there is a very good scope for new entrepreneurs in this field. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Anil Products Ltd. Anil Starch Products Ltd. Bharat Starch Inds. Ltd. English Indian Clays Ltd. Gayatri Bioorganics Ltd. Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd. Gujarat Ambuja Proteins Ltd. Gulshan Polyols Ltd. Indian Maize & Chemicals Ltd. International Bestfoods Ltd. K G Gluco Biols Ltd. Kamala Sugar Mills Ltd. Karnataka State Agro Corn Products Ltd. Laxmi Starch Ltd. Origin Agrostar Ltd. Pondicherry Agro Service & Inds. Corpn. Ltd. Rai Agro Inds. Ltd. Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols Ltd. Santosh Starch Ltd. Santosh Starch Products Ltd. Sayaji Industries Ltd. Sukhjit Starch & Chemicals Ltd. Tirupati Starch & Chemicals Ltd. Unique Sugars Ltd. Universal Starch Chem Allied Ltd. Wockhardt Health Care Ltd. Cost Estimation: Capacity : 9300 MT/Annum Maize Starch 1500 MT/Annum by Product Germ 900 MT/Annum Gluten 2400 MT/Annum Husk/Bran 600 MT/Annum Steep Liquer