Amla processing technology archaic

UTTAR PRADESH produces millions of tonnes of Amla every year. A slew of Amla-based products are also manufactured by entrepreneurs in the State. However, you will hardly find Amla products in any home in the country?s most populated state. This has given the Indian Industries Association (IIA) in Lucknow a major cause for concern.

UTTAR PRADESH produces millions of tonnes of Amla every year. A slew of Amla-based products are also manufactured by entrepreneurs in the State. However, you will hardly find Amla products in any home in the country’s most populated state. This has given the Indian Industries Association (IIA) in Lucknow a major cause for concern.

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“It seems the technology being utilised to process Amla is not quite right in the State. The food processing industry in the State is still using traditional technology to process food items. It’s time the industry gave high level value addition to processed food products”, D S Verma, IIA executive director, told reporters here on Wednesday.

In this context, a two-day international seminar is being organised by the IIA on ‘Commercialisation of New Technologies in Agro and Food Processing’ at two separate venues—one at the Hotel Taj Residency and the other at India Food Expo 2006 at Balrampur gardens on February 10 and 11, respectively, he said
The India Food Expo 2006 would be inaugurated by UPDC chairman Amar Singh on February 9 at the Balrampur gardens while State Minister for Agriculture Ashok Bajpai would be the guest of honour on the occasion, he said.