CIPHET licenses package of technologies to Krishna Foods

Ludhiana, April 21 (Anmol Saggu)



Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology signed a MoU with Krishna Foods and Seed Processors (KFSP), Gurdaspur, for transferring the package of technologies.

The transferred technologies included design/ drawing for fabrication of CIPHET tomato grader, porous bricks, modified atmospheric packaging of different vegetables, low cost technique for enhancing shelf life of tomato, shrink wrap packaging of fruits and vegetables and process of vermi drain -a liquid plant growth tonic. Besides, CIPHET would also be providing training and technical support to the entrepreneur.

Dr Jatinder Singh Dhaliwal, Project Manager of KFSP, said that all these technologies would help them in value addition and providing better quality to consumers. "Earlier, we were only growing mushrooms but now we have also entered into production of vegetables," he said, adding that modified atmosphere packaging and shrink packaging would help in enhancement of the shelf life. "On the other hand tomato grader would be useful for grading tomatoes and vermi compost technology develop by CIPHET would save unnecessary use of chemical fertilizers," Dr Jatinder Dhaliwal further added.

Head Transfer of Technology (ToT) Division Dr Deepak Raj Rai said that they would also be providing training to the entrepreneurs to effectively adopt licensed technologies. "We have developed number of technologies in food processing and interested farmers/entrepreneurs could contact us," he added. Incharge ITMU Dr D.M Kadam was also present on the occasion.
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