Showing posts with label Quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Avoid waste, improve quality and get better price by solar crop drying



Portable farm solar dryer designed by the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Centre

  • Get 70% higher price than open sun dried product. You can recover the cost of the machine in about 60 days.
  • Up to 100% more efficiency than cabinet type dryer.
  • Around 20-30 kg of red chillies can be dried in 3 to 4 sunny days.
  • This design is commercially available at a cost of around Rs. 5500/- from M/s Vishwa Karma Solar Energy Corporation (Regd.), Phillaur - 144 410, Punjab.

Other manufacturers of solar driers:

  • ATR SOLAR (INDIA), 380, Kamarajar I street Bibikulam MADURAI - 625 002, TAMIL NADU Tel: 0452 - 4353673, 3256595 Email: atrsolar@gmail.com, theri@atrsolar.com (chilies, vegetables, fish and herb driers)
  • PRINCE India, Jankibai Trust, Shamgiri, Agra Road, Deopur, DHULE - 424 005, Maharashtra. Tel: 02562 - 271795 Email: contact@princeindia.org (vegetable/fruit drying, making powders of moringa leaves, tomato and potato powders, green chilly powders ...etc)

Note: Please note that we don't endorse any vendor.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

In Tamil Nadu, farms can get organic certification locally



Organic farm in Kumizhi, Tamil Nadu.