Q$3)$ Kissan is a large food$-$processing company in India that produces various food products.

One of the famous products of Kissan is 'Kissan Berry Blast,$\text{'}$ a Berry Jam. For many years,

Kissan has enjoyed market leadership with almost negligible competition; however, other

companies have begun marketing similar products in the area, and price competition has

become increasingly important. Mr$.$ Mohan, the company controller, is planning to implement

a standard cost system for Kissan Berry Blast and has gathered considerable information

from his co$-$workers on production and material requirements for Berry Blast. Mohan

believes using standard costing will allow Kissan to improve cost control and market better

pricing decisions.

Out of the three flavors of Berry Blast, strawberry jam is quite popular. Jam is usually

produced in a batch of $40kg.$ For each batch of jam, $50kg$ of hand$-$picked strawberries enters

the production process. All the strawberries purchased from the market are not useable;

therefore, the fresh strawberries purchased from the market are first sorted by hand before

entering the production process.

Three minutes is the standard direct labor time for sorting to obtain $1kg$ of berries. Then

acceptable strawberries are blended with the other ingredients. Blending requires $1\mathrm{.}5$ hour of

direct labor hour time per batch. After blending, the jam is packaged in containers. Mohan

has gathered the following information from the accounting department.

Kissan purchases strawberries at the cost of Rs$.20$ per kg$.$ Strawberries are purchased

in tonnes, and in one lot, the company purchase $1$ tonne $(1000kg)$ of strawberries.

Kissan adds sugar to the jam as sweetener. Each batch requires around $5kg$ of sugar,

and the cost of the sugar is Rs$.30$ per kg$.$

The company adds some preservers also. In one bottle of jam, preservers costing Rs$,2$

is added.

Direct labor is paid at the rate of Rs$.150$ per hour.