Kuantum Papers Limited

FY2027 Q1

2026-08-14 Transcript PDF
Moderator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. We take the first question from the line of Jiten Parmar from Aurum Capital.

Aurum Capital

My question is on the guidance for current year. Are we maintaining it? Or what is the new guidance? And what about EBITDA margins? What is that we think we can achieve?

So I think the guidance clearly is positive. We are upbeat that with the commissioning of our last machine on our upgradation program, which is our PM3 that is going to be coming on stream within this month in about a week or so. With that, having complete d the entire upgradation program, we are going to be syncing all our operations and verticals in close coordination with each other thereby getting the benefits of overall syncing of our operations. And obviously, overall profitability is likely to increas e. On our EBITDA margins, I should say that even if things go along the way they are, we should be reaching closer to about at least between 16% to 18% by the year-end.

Aurum Capital

Okay. And what about that? What will be -- I mean, I think major capex is over. So what will be the peak debt? And what will be the debt reduction guidance for the next years?

Peak debt, we are currently looking at about INR760 crores or INR770 crores maximum. And we have repayments of about INR170 crores, INR175 crores for the next 2 to 3 years. And by the next 3 years, we will be at very, very manageable levels of debt under INR300 crores. It's going to gradually reduce -- keep reducing over the next 1, 2, 3 years.

Aurum Capital

And what about the raw material sources, the split between waste and wood, if you can quantify that?

So we have a mix of two pulps that we use, which is almost 50-50 in content, 50% is agro pulp, 50% is wood pulp. Sourcing for that is primarily all within the state of Punjab or neighboring states. So raw material sourcing is not an issue for us other than the vagaries of sort o f pricing, sometimes it's wayward, but availability is not an issue at all for us.

Aurum Capital

Perfect. And if you can throw some light on -- my final question, if you may please allow. If you can throw some light on what is the situation with imports right now? Are there -- with yuan appreciating so much, what is the situation of imports? I mean, has the import intensity reduced and price-wise, is there any difference or landed imports are at similar prices or something? If you can throw some more light on this, that will be great?

So what we are observing is a diminishing trend in imports, which is a good positive for the industry. And largely, it's the challenge that the world is witnessing in terms of shipping costs, container availability and logistic costs. So I think primary reason is shipping, and that is leading to this situation of diminishing imports into India. Pricing is again, very stable. They are not reducing from last periods. So that, again, is a positive. And I don't see too much competition staring at us from imports of material in the future.

Aurum Capital

Perfect. I wish you all the best. You have gone on a bold program of revamping the whole machinery and also increasing the capacity. So I wish you all the best.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Madhav Jhawar from SKP Securities.

SKP Securities

So my first question is on the pulp capacity that was about to come. Now you mentioned that wood capacity has come in. But what about the agro capacity, which is about to come?

So our pulping capacities, we are at a level of about 200 tons each of agro and wood. And that is consistent with our even paper production capacity. That's all that we will need to run all our 4 machines adequately. They are already in place. Pulping capacity resources are already in place.

SKP Securities

Okay. And what about the EC clearance? Did you get the EC clearance for the PM3 machine upgradation?

SKP Securities

Okay. And so the raw material costs, for example, chemical costs and all had gone up quite significantly during the war. So has the chemical cost corrected along with any other major chemical or other raw materials that you use?

So there was an interesting sort of trend here that we saw. The escalation was primarily due to the West Asia conflict. And as you would reckon that we did see instances of the war getting declared as over. And we actually saw those prices coming down for a while before they start shooting up again once the trending of the de-escalation and war was over. So they quite remained in tune with the situation of the war. As it currently stands, they are higher than they were in Q4. And -- but I guess they've kind of stabilized at these levels, and we don't see any further rise in the prices of these chemicals and inputs going forward.

SKP Securities

And sir, so a lot of capex has been done on upgrading the value -added segment of the paper, right? So will that help in, let's say, realization per ton and EBITDA per ton?

Yes, for sure. We already have taken the commercial runs also, like initially, I was told that we have produced OGR also, and we are looking on the specialty grade where we can get plus 20% EBITDA on the particular quality.

SKP Securities

And how much realization can we expect incremental realization?

We target around 5% to 6% initially moving forward for the next years. And that will be a base creation for this year. And then we will be more moving into specialty grades of paper.

SKP Securities

So right now, last year it was around -- so Q1 was around INR70 per kg. So you're saying 5% from INR70 per kg?

That was on the top line, I said. 5% will come from the specialty grades of paper. Because realizing in this market, what NSR will be sustaining is a big task. But again, the EBITDA level on the particular quality, we are aiming above 20%.

SKP Securities

Okay. Got it, sir. And one last question. On the raw material side, do you see any price pressure in the good and wheat straw?

Yes. Wheat straw seems to be coming down. And we see next quarter also. As of now, it's a bit stable or lesser, I would say. But going forward, it will come down. And the infrastructure created where we can store the bulk of the agro raw material.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Rajesh Bhandari from Nakoda Engineers.

Nakoda Engineers

Yes. Kuantum as such has a very good name in the market. But my only worry from the point of view of the shareholder is that somehow the profits are getting eaten up in terms of interest. And our debt is very, very high. When can we expect that debt reduce s and the profit also goes

up and interest comes down? And connected with that, what can we expect our turnover by 2028 and 2030?

Vikram Khaitan

Yes, sure. The debt will come down gradually in next 2 to 3 years. As earlier, Pavan sir told that during '26, '27, we have a debt repayment liability of around INR170 crores. But in next 2 to 3 years, it will gradually come down and the peak debt will be around INR300 crores to INR350 crores in next 3 years.

So I would add here that this is a step that we took for charting out a growth prospect for ourselves. If you don't take debt, you don't grow. If you want to grow, you have to take debt and you have to bite that bullet for some time. We have to allow all our investments to bear fruition. And once they start giving the returns, as and how the debt repayment happens, the interest cost will keep coming down and thereby allowing us to retain our profits.

Nakoda Engineers

Yes, I agree with you, sir. From INR1,000 crores, you said it is INR330 crores. In how many years we can expect?

Every year, you take about INR175 crores reduction in debt.

Yes. There is a possibility of even prepaying if we are able to generate higher -than-expected profits for which the situation is positive, we can prepay and get our debt level reduced earlier than later.

Nakoda Engineers

But sir, our yearly turnover is approximately INR1,200 crores?

Nakoda Engineers

Out of that, and 18% you are saying EBITDA?

Nakoda Engineers

Will we be able to reduce by INR175 crores per year?

No, INR1,200 crores is the current top line. We are expecting this to grow between INR1,400 crores to INR1,500 crores. So even if it's 18% to 20% EBITDA, we should be getting an EBITDA of close to INR300 crores, generating that kind of EBITDA every year and enough to take care of our debt and interest repayment liability.

Nakoda Engineers

Okay. INR1,400 crores to INR1,500 crores by next year or in this year itself?

Next year, for sure, INR1,400 crores to INR1,500 crores. This year will be INR1,300 crores plus.

Anu Parakh

So my first question is, our average paper realization is relatively flat on a Y -o-Y basis in Q1 FY '27 despite an 11% increase in the Chinese BHKP prices and weakening of rupee by another 11% in Q1. So can you please provide some color or reason for the same?

So I think I would beg to differ that our pricing is flat. Our NSR has increased by about INR3,400 per ton in Q1 as compared to related period. Does that answer your question?

Anu Parakh

Sir prices are flat on a Y-o-Y basis?

Anu Parakh

Last year same period?

Vikram Khaitan

So last year same -- on Y-o-Y basis, it is around INR4,000 more. NSR is more INR4,000 on Y- o-Y basis.

Over last quarter, 5% plus and Y-o-Y basis, it's around 7% plus.

Anu Parakh

Understood. Sir, what should be the ideal paper realization as per you, assuming the Chinese prices settle at $550 to $600 per ton over the medium term and rupee remains at the INR95 level?

So I think every product is not comparable to the kind of imports that the country is doing from China. We have our own product profile and everything cannot be correlated to the Chinese import price per se. And the fact is that we've been able to create a big marketing strength for ourselves locationally, position-wise, our sort of depth of market. So because of that, we are able to realize a better price for ourselves as compared to others in the industry. So currently, we are at about INR68,000, INR69,000 per ton level. Ideally, going forward, sensing of how the market is growing and the kind of positivity that -- positive sentiment that we are getting, our price increase is likely to touch and reach about INR72,000 to INR75,000 level in the next 4, 6 months.

Anu Parakh

Okay. Sir, on the Maplitho side, the segment has been severely impacted due to inverted duty structure post GST rate change last year. Do you see any possibility that the government is likely to do any rectification in the GST rate to provide some form of protection to the domestic mills in the coming months?

No, I'm afraid. The government is quite strong in their conviction by sort of having implemented that. I think the industry has to move forward. The fact is that this implication is only and only if you are producing and selling paper for notebook segment. So we have -- we at Kuantum, we've taken a conscious call to reduce, if not eliminate over a period of time, our foray and marketing of notebook paper. So that impact will be negligible for us. And even for the product that we have sold for notebook in the last 6 months, we have added on the loss of GST that we've had on this such production. And we've been very, very clear on charging our customers for t he loss that has been incurred by us. So it's not really -- in real terms, it's not really a complexity here. And the fact is that we

-- if we are strong enough to charge our customers the loss that we are incurring, it happens to be a win-win case for both.

Anu Parakh

Sir, you said that the realization has gone down to INR68 per kg. So whether the paper prices have corrected in Q2 FY '27 as the realizations were around INR71 per kg in Q1?

Well, I don't know where are you getting your figures from. I wouldn't say they've gone down to INR68. They've come up to INR68 from a level of INR66 or even INR64.

Anu Parakh

Yes. Lastly, on the imports, so many countries like U.S.A., Australia, South Korea have imposed tariffs on paper imports from China and Indonesia. So why have we not yet filed the case with DGFT to initiate any investigation on ADD or CVD on copier and Maplitho paper till date?

We have. We have already done that. We are already in close coordination with the government, where our applications for antidumping duty and anti -subsidy duty has already been filed, and it is being keenly being looked at by the government. We are very hopeful that we will get some positive feedback from them and something favorable should be implem ented. So this actually arose?

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Apurva Anil Sharma from RAAS Capital.

RAAS Capital

My first question is in regards to -- can you throw some little light about your volume growth for this quarter?

For this quarter, which is Q2 or Q1, which one are you asking?

Q1, we've seen a growth because frankly, last year, Q1, we had a shutdown of one of our machines, and that led -- for upgradation purposes, and that led to a kind of notional loss of production. But as against even Q4 of last year, we have increased our pr oduction slightly, and that is largely due to efficiency of our machines getting better. And we are -- now with the upgradation of our last fourth machine, which is PM3, which is underway, and that is getting commissioned within this month, we should see a bump up in our production and sales volumes going forward.

RAAS Capital

Okay. Sir, another question. I just wanted to understand the landscape about the ADD so far that has been implemented by the government, one on decor paper and one recently on the virgin multilayer paperboard. Now both these are basis the GSM in the ADD, right? One is from 40 to 130 and the virgin one is from 140 to 450. Now going forward, if we are working very closely with the government in getting the new set of ADDs, would the new ADDs cover the GSMs that Kuantum is selling right now?

Yes, for sure. So what we filed is in the writing and printing paper segment, and that clearly covers all GSMs that Kuantum is making. It is covering all GSMs between 40 and 140.

RAAS Capital

Okay. And when and if this thing comes, it stays for the time period of 5 years. Am I right?

RAAS Capital

All right. And sir, in last quarter, you had indicated about the realization going back to INR69,000 to INR71,000 per ton. Are we still on line aligned with that?

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Arjun Vinay Tambe from Aurrevia Crest. Please go ahead.

Aurrevia Crest

Yes sir. I just have one. In last concall you had given a guidance of INR1,400 crores to INR1,500 crores for FY27 and now you are saying INR1,300 crores plus. So according to INR1,300 crores plus if EBITDA to be kept at 18% to 20% then INR240 crores to INR260 crores it is coming?

Aurrevia Crest

You said INR300 crores and out of that INR175 crores of prepayment would be done?

Aurrevia Crest

That is not getting matched and in this concall have you revised the guidance or what has happened in INR1,400 crores and INR1,500 crores and in INR1,300 crores there is a gap so please explain sir?

So what has happened is that the earlier guidance was basis a certain sales realization that we were expecting; those are not staying at that level. They are running below those expected levels. And even furthermore, EBITDA margins are further getting stra ined by the increased cost of operation due to the West Asia crisis. Nobody could have imagined like a war starting in a part of the world and impacting sort of pricing here in India. But the fact is it is happening. So nobody could have imagined such a situation. All this is collaterals and which is impacting EBITDA margins at the present. But nonetheless, we are looking at figures as they are, and they are conservative figures. We are still ensuring that we take care of all our repayment liabilities on both interest and term loan, even in this very, very competitive time line.

Aurrevia Crest

All right. And one more thing. You talked about AI integration in the production manufacturing process and that would be done in around FY28, right?

Yes, that's a continuous process that is continually being looked at, continually being done, executed and improved upon. That's a long-term kind of contract that we have engaged with our supplier. And that is how, as I said, mentioned earlier that by March '28, we will be concluding this exercise and getting the relevant returns.

Aurrevia Crest

So incrementally, what would be the opex reduction from it?

We could target between 4% to 5% additions in -- or reductions in costs.

Aurrevia Crest

Okay. And just one last question. Your product segmentation in the last quarter, you had mentioned around 25% to 30% of your entire revenue was contributed by specialty needs. So is it still at the same contribution or it has increased or decreased or what it is?

We are working towards reaching that target. Right now, our contribution from specialty paper is just under 20%. It's about 18%, 19%, but we will surely be making our efforts to reach that level of 30%.

Aurrevia Crest

All right. And in last week your competitors has posted a result and their EBITDA margins have increased year-on-year and ours has decreased. So what would be the main reason, the West Asia crisis or any other?

No. So I would assume that the West Asia crisis has impacted everybody uniformly. For us, we are located in a state where our raw material input cost has risen a little abnormally and that is impacting only the operators in Punjab and which is where we are facing a competitive landscape on our procurement of raw material costs. So -- but I think over a period of time, we are already seeing a reduction -- a gradual reduction in these cost of procurement. And over a period of time, they should level out.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Moksh Ranka from Aurum Capital.

Aurum Capital

I wanted to ask what would be our peak turnover when all our plants are running based on current realization? And also, what could be the peak turnover based on realizations we had in like '23 -- FY '23?

Well, very extremely interesting question, I must say. On current realizations, we should target about between INR1,400 crores to INR1,500 crores turnover. And based on realizations of '23, we will cross INR1,800.

Aurum Capital

Okay. And that is based on all your 4 plants running at peak capacity?

Yes. So post the commissioning of our fourth machine, which is now happening in the -- within this month, we will be running our entire plant at peak capacity.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Madhav Jhawar from SKP Securities.

SKP Securities

So you mentioned earlier in the call that you are targeting...

Moderator

Your audio is muffled out. Could you please remove headset?

SKP Securities

So earlier on the call, you mentioned 16% to 18% of EBITDA you're targeting. So right now, when can we expect -- which quarter can we expect that kind of EBITDA?

I think Q3 onwards because even in Q2, we are sort of undergoing expansion, modernization. Some of our machines are closed. Some of our boilers are getting maintenance. So Q2 would not be the right time. Q3 onwards, we will see the operations at full effic iency, and that's when these kind of margins should be visible.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Shayan Khan, an Individual Investor.

Yes. So I just have one question. So could you help me break down the significant growth in other income this quarter? Like what's exactly driving that increase?

Vikram Khaitan

It is due to sale of plant and scrap sales.

So in a way, they are all operational related. All the other income that we generate is as part of the operation. And if we add that to our EBITDA margin, which it should, we actually get an EBITDA margin of 14.4%.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Arjun Vinay Tambe from Aurrevia Crest.

Aurrevia Crest

Sir, just a ballpark figure. FY '29 to FY '30, what should be the range of our revenue at peak capacity and at the realization, what you expect?

I think a good conservative figure would be about INR1,500 crores top line and INR300 crores to INR350 crores EBITDA.

Yes. I'm saying very conservatively. I mean if the market is helpful and we see an average of pricing of about INR75 a kilo or INR75,000 a ton, it could be closer to INR1,600 or INR1,650 crores.

I still stand by that. In our last con call, we had thought the downturn had petered out and we would see a surge in our pricing, which unfortunately hasn't happened because of a couple of things. The environment has not been favorable. But I'm sure by that time, by '28 or '29 FY, we -- even now I'm saying that INR1,500 crores is a conservative figure based on current pricing. But if the pricing goes up, which it should being a commodity cycle and it should see the improvement happening, we could reach between INR1,600 crores to INR1,650 crores as well.

Aurrevia Crest

Do you believe that the industry has bottomed out in terms of input costs? Or is it still to bottomed out?

Well, input costs actually are on a rise, so they haven't really bottomed out. Price line, I would say, has bottomed out.

Aurrevia Crest

Bottomed out in terms of our margins like it will not go below this level and all we can see is an uptick?

Yes. We are positive about that sentiment. We are looking at uptrends happening on our margin, and that should clearly show an upward trend.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Rohan Choksi from RAAS Capital.

RAAS Capital

Yes, sir. Sir, you cited a INR4,200 ton cost increase against a INR3,100 ton NSR gain. So how much of that INR4,000 is from the West Asia war specifically like steel Chemical versus wood and all that? And can that gap be passed through?

So I would say about 50-odd percent of the increased cost is due to the West Asia crisis. Rest of it is more local depending on the state in which we are operating and the cost of raw materials that we are procuring that has seen a price rise in this quarter. And the question of passing it on, there is no direct correlation between increased costs and increased selling price. But yes, the fact is that out of the INR4,200, which has increased as cost, INR3,400 has been passed on by way of increase in our pricing if you see quarter-to-quarter.

RAAS Capital

Right, sir. Okay. You said in the peak capacity, you said all the 4 plants will be up and running to peak capacity.

RAAS Capital

And if we even take the generalization, then wouldn't the revenues be much more than INR1,600 crores or even INR1,800 crores? First of all, what is peak capacity like is it 80%?

No. We are calculating everything at 100%, but the fact is that in a paper machine, it cannot operate all 365 days. The normal working in a paper machine one gets is about 330 days working

because you have to take machine downtime for changing of consumables, which is wire part, press part, clothings and so on and so forth. So normal downtime, which is planned downtime is occurring and that contributes for about 35 days in a year. So that effectively reduces the output of the operation. And then depending on the GSM that we get for our orders, that helps decide what the actua l output is. So taking everything into consideration, that is why I'm saying that on a conservative basis, we should touch levels of INR1,500 crores top line revenue. And in case there are reasonable trendings on market pricing, which certainly there are signs for, we should touch between INR1,600 crores to INR1,650 crores.

RAAS Capital

Got it, sir. And sir, right now, the specialty is 20% to 22%. And I was just reading a CRISIL's report that said that writing and paper demand is only 1% to 3% CAGR up to financial year '30. So do we have any plans of increasing into packaging, specialty, which are actually growing 6% to 8% and a lot of them have ADD and support from the government as well as opposed to writing and paper?

RAAS Capital

So much on the capex. Will it move towards specialty and packaging? Or should we be doing that?

Yes. Strategically, we are doing that as our CEO said that we are looking at increasing our specialty content by about 5% or so. So we will move up that ladder. We are targeting reaching 30% of our production as specialty. But I would say that having remained in the writing printing segment, we have actually created a good mark for ourselves. So we cannot really write off that entire segment clearly. We have maintained a good strong position for ourselves. We are producing very effectively and reducing our cost of operation and have already gained a huge positive mark in the market for all our writing, printing products. So it's a legacy which has been born out of years and years of work and cannot just evaporate overnight.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Anant Mundra from Mytemple Capital.

Mytemple Capital

Sir, just wanted to get a sense on how the prices of wheat straw are behaving right now? Have they cooled off?

Yes, we are clearly seeing signs of them coming down. And I think the impact will be more visible in the next month or so because alternate fodder materials. So please understand that wheat straw mainly -- the mainstay of wheat straw is used as fodder for cattle in the state of Punjab and neighboring states. Wheat straw being consumed by the pulp and paper industry is a very small part of it. So there will be alternate material available as fodder in the shape of rice straw and corn cobs. Once those materials come in by, let's say, month of September and October, the force on wheat

straw will evaporate, will come down and that we should see the leveling out of pricing in the commodity of wheat straw.

Mytemple Capital

All right. But as on date, the things -- I mean, as on date, how things stand, the wheat straw prices are still higher, and they continue to be at the same level as in Q1?

No, they have come down. We are engaging with our suppliers and aggregators to see how we can moderate these pricing, and we have been successful. And we are seeing a reduction in wheat straw procurement prices for ourselves in Q2 versus Q1.

Mytemple Capital

All right. So you mentioned that the price pressure, half of it was due to increase in local raw material prices. Were you referring to specifically wheat straw only?

Yes. The local one -- the local content has been attributed to by wheat straw.

Mytemple Capital

All right. All right. And sir, one final question was on how -- so our -- while our paper capacity is going up, our pulp capacity is -- at least in the presentation, it continues to stay at 365 TPD. So is there also going to be an increase there or we are going to rely on bought out pulp for the increased paper capacity?

So pulp capacity should -- will increase to about 410, 415 tons per day, and that's all that we will require to produce the relevant quantities of paper because almost 150 to 180 tons of filler will be used to manufacture our paper and rest about 40 to 50 tons per day will be the imported pulp content, which is actually something which is required for the better stability and a better product quality for our paper and the kind of segment that we are in, it will be very helpful to have that kind of volumes getting used by using imported wood pulp.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Utkarsh Nopany from Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited.

Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited

Sir, my first question is regarding the paper price movement in the September quarter. So like we believe that September quarter is a seasonally weak quarter for the printing and writing paper segment. So just wanted a sense from you whether the industry h as seen any correction in the paper prices in this quarter versus June quarter or any discounts have gone up in September quarter period?

So I would like to sort of slightly make another statement that September is not a good quarter for the paper industry. September, in fact, the Q2 is amongst the leanest part of the year, the leanest quarter for the industry. It's only post September, whic h is October onwards that the industry starts looking up as it starts preparing for the new education year of the next financial year. But having said that, our pricing has remained stable. We haven't seen any downward impact on pricing of our product, and it's in good stead for us.

Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited

Okay. So the prices have remained flat on a Q -on-Q basis despite a weak demand in the September quarter. Is that the correct understanding? Yes. And sir, if you can give some sense

what would be the imported paper price of Copier and Maplitho near port area at present, if you can give some sense?

So imported price, we are currently seeing trending between $610 and $620 per ton. Volumes are not large enough to create any kind of negative impact.

Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited

And sir, what has been the change in the timber price in Q1 on both Q -on-Q and Y-o-Y basis for you? And what would be your outlook for timber price over the next, say, 12 - to 18-month period?

So I think we are -- we have a positive trend on timber price as in they are largely remaining stable, if not reducing by about 5% to 6%. And that is what we see going forward also with the kind of social forestry programs even that we are conducting, we a re helping regenerate and grow -- regrow the availability of timber in our area through our clonal saplings initiative that we are doing. And so are we seeing that even other players are doing similar instances and helping grow the timber availability in our area.

Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited

Okay. So sir, timber prices are not likely to correct, say, over medium term, it is likely to remain stable only?

I think, yes, this is the kind of price line, give or take a few percentage points here or there. This is the kind of price line that we see going forward because handling costs, labor costs, transportation costs, that is something which is increasing. So even if the basic price of timber reduces, which it will, it will be offset by increased labor and transportation costs.

Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Limited

Okay. And sir, lastly, like how would be the paper inventory in the channel that is with dealers? Is it at normal levels, below normal or above normal level at the moment?

So my personal opinion is that there is a slack there. The volumes as being stored by dealers is minimal now. Pipelines are relatively empty and which suggests that there is likely going to be a surge towards a surge of demand in paper and which is likely to impact our pricing also positively.

Moderator

We take the next question from the line of Arjun Vinay Tambe from Aurrevia Crest. Please go ahead.

Aurrevia Crest

Yes sir. You have mentioned in your last concall that ou are coming up with two seedlings, P29 and E2. So would you please just shed some light on that? And a follow-up on that is, how would that incrementally affect our P&L statement?

So we are looking at these high -yielding, high-growth varieties of saplings. And we are seeing an encouraging trend in terms of offtake. The fact is that we are being able to sell whatever saplings we create, and it is seeing an encouraging trend. We are -- in fact, our target is from the current level of about 40 -odd lakh saplings every year, we are planning to achieve 1 crore saplings every year in the next 3 to 4 years. So it's on an encouraging and growth path, and we see that getting established very, very positively for us.

Aurrevia Crest

Okay. That's great. But incrementally in our P&L, how would that affect?

Yes, it's going to add to the sort of other income or sort of lateral income for us. And -- but we don't really want to budget that too much because our mainstay is paper. Whatever comes through that is going to be an added bonus.

Prachi Sharma

I will add to that. Just for us, we don't look at it as a revenue stream per se. The idea is to grow seeds of social farm forestry. So what it really will help us in the future is it will help us reduce the cost of procurement of wood. We should not look a t it as the top line item, but something that will help us secure our wood requirement in the future. And when supply goes up and we become wood positive, that means that our overall cost of procurement of wood will go down. So it's a future-looking sustainability exercise rather than a pure revenue play right now.

Moderator

That was the last question in the queue. As there are no further questions, I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Pavan Khaitan for closing remarks.

Thank you all for participating in this earnings conference call. I hope we were able to answer your questions satisfactorily and at the same time, offer insights into our business. If you have any further questions or would like to know more about the com pany, please reach out to our Investor Relations managers at Valorem Advisors. Thank you, and wishing you all a great day ahead.

Moderator

Thank you, sir. On behalf of SKP Securities Limited, that concludes the conference. Thank you for joining us, ladies and gentlemen. You may now disconnect your lines.