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From khoya to bakarwadi, automation is key at Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale
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Friday, 24 June, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Manjushree Naik
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When it comes to making Indian desserts like gulabjumans, pedhas, rasgullas, and burfis, khoya or dried whole milk is a key ingredient. And Pune-based Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale is among the topmost sweets manufacturers in the country to use a modern machine worth Rs 4.5 crore for making khoya. The company owns an automatic milk concentration plant where one needs to pour milk at one end and collect khoya at the other.
Apart from being equipped with modern machinery, the company is known for having six manufacturing units. Of these, the unit located at Ranje Shivapur near Pune has two automated manufacturing lines specifically devoted to manufacture and export of bakarwadi, the unique and monopoly food snack item from the famous sweet house.
Manual to automated
From a very small beginning which saw food items being produced manually with domestic help under a limited physical space, Chitale today boasts of state-of-the-art use of technology in production and end-cycle management of business.
A comprehensive infrastructure, in terms of skilled manpower, automated manufacturing units situated at easily accessible points, distribution hubs at key locations and a wide and strong agent & distributor network is in place to take care of all the business needs of the concern.
Dairy industry
Chitale is also a name to reckon with, when it comes to the diary industry - milk drawing, pasteurising to supplying to small units in villages.
However, in the dairy industry, farmers have to be kept updated with all the technological advances in dairy farming and helped with the choice of right breed of buffaloes to give an enhanced milk yield.
Studies conducted by the company clearly emphasise on the need for high merit pedigree bull for production performance and hence it has established an ultra modern buffalo research development farm.
Calf breeding
A nursery for calf breeding, frozen semen laboratory and blood profile and pathogenic lab installed with automatic feeding stations are the other key efforts by the company. The dairy farm consists of fully integrated milking and feeding system where records of each animal are stored in the computer.
This has helped to reduce the mortality rate of calf which is now less than 1 per cent.
As animal health is of utmost concern, the in-house medical centre provides facilities for blood sampling, and detection of bacteriological and viral infections in undertaking the fight against deadly diseases such as brucellosis in buffaloes..
A modern semen technology has been established in order to obtain high yield fat rich milk in both buffaloes and cows. High pedigree bulls and cow bulls are reared in the farm. About 1,84,000 artificial inseminations were conducted till the end of 2004 whereby a success of 43.55 per cent in buffaloes achieved in these inseminations.
Further high pedigree bulls such as Morah and Mesana have been distributed to farmers at subsidised rates. Satellite farms, another concept by the company, enables farmers to use milking parlour system and other advanced dairy techonologies thus ensuring hygienic practices.
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