Indian Council of Agricultural Research and The Central Institute of Post-harvest Engineering and Technology CIPHET, Ludhiana, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with budding entrepreneurs for incubation of roasting and grinding of nuts.
Navnoor Kaur, founder and CEO of Jagger Cane start-up, approached for roasting and grinding of nuts to produce value-added products from jaggery.
The MoA was signed in the presence of Nachiket Kotwaliwale, director ICAR- CIPHET, along with the CIPHET team.
Nachiket said the Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) programme is an initiative of ICAR for facilitating incubation of new start-ups or entrepreneurs and enterprises for innovative, commercial and potential technologies by providing need-based physical, technical, business and networking support.
The ICAR-CIPHET provides incubation services for selected technologies.
Navnoor Kaur is manufacturing different types of value-added crunchy jaggery crumbs without using any preservatives and chemicals.
Navnoor said jaggery is a healthier sweetener as well as medicinal sugar, rich in vitamins and minerals. “It is used in Ayurvedic medicines as a blood purifier and also used for curing infections and is a good alternative to sugar and other artificial sweeteners in many applications,” she said.