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DFRL teams up with Karnataka horti dept for value-added tomato products
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Tuesday, 05 March, 2013, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Nandita Vijay, Bengaluru
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fiogf49gjkf0d Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore, in association with the Karnataka department of horticulture has embarked on a project to help tomato farmers to realise appropriate value for their produce by taking up manufacture of value-added products from tomato. This includes methods to preserve puree, ready-to-serve beverage, green and red tomato chutneys, tomato curry paste, tomato sambhar / rasam pastes, dehydrated tomato powder, intermediate moisture tomato slices, and tomato sauce.
A total number of three workshops were carried out so far in Chikballapur, Chintamani and Sidlagatta in collaboration with state horticulture department under the supervision of deputy director of horticulture, Chikballapur district.
Nearly 350 tomato farmers, rural entrepreneurs, rural women and SHGs were trained as delegates in tomato processing towards the manufacture of specific tomato products as highlighted before. The feedback on the workshops was extremely encouraging and the state horticulture department is upon the task for establishing necessary backward and forward linkages in marketing and funding of projects by the marketing and financial bodies.
"At present, tomato farmers are facing much agony as the produce during the glut season is not fetching adequate price and the farmers often resort to not harvesting their crop or to throw away the produce as even the transportation costs are not realised due to the lack of appropriate post-harvest management of tomato," stated a source at DFRL.
DFRL scientific teams started making use of a mobile processing unit which can be transported into rural areas for the purpose of value addition and the demos / workshops were carried out in make-shift accommodations.
Nearly 350 tomato farmers, rural entrepreneurs, rural women and SHGs were trained as delegates in tomato processing towards the manufacture of specific tomato products as highlighted before. The feedback on the workshops was extremely encouraging and the state horticulture department is upon the task for establishing necessary backward and forward linkages in marketing and funding of projects by the marketing and financial bodies, according to DFRL.
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