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Gujarat plans integrated pack house for farm goods
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Saturday, 12 May, 2007, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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sed to set up an integrated pack house at Naroda, Ahmedabad, at an estimated cost of Rs 6 crore. It is likely to become operational by the end of this year, says GAIC managing director S C Srivastav. With this Gujarat mangoes will go untouched all the way to the US and Japan. In view of the growing demand for quality mangoes from India, especially from Kesar in Gujarat, the state-owned GAIC decided to set up its own vapour heat treatment (VHT) plant with integrated pack house for fruits and vegetables at Naroda, Ahmedabad. The demand for mangoes, bananas and chikoos, and for farm products like potato, tomato, cauliflower and cabbage is growing in the west, especially in the US and in the Asian countries like Japan and China.
While the VHT, that would be ready for operation soon, is likely to cost about Rs 8 crore, the proposal for setting up an integrated pack house for fruits and vegetables has also been sanctioned by the Agricultural and Processed Products Export Development Authority (Apeda). This project is likely to cost Rs 6 crore and would be ready for operation by the end of this year. The pack house will have washing, inspecting, grading and packing sheds to take care of fruits and vegetables during the packaging process. Besides, it will have a Rs 13-lakh full-fledged laboratory to undertake scientific test of the produce enabling the approval for the export market. Besides creating a facility for ripening of fruits, it will also have a multi-purpose fruit and vegetable washing machine with an installed capacity of two tonnes per hour.
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