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Scientists organise poster session
ON THE second day of the fourth day international conference on ?Post harvest technology and value addition in cereals, pulses and oilseeds? at the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (CSA), young scientists at the University held a poster session highlighting the new researches relating to value addition in the agricultural product here on Tuesday. Over two dozen of posters were displayed on the occasion informing the visitors about the works of the scientists.
ON THE second day of the fourth day international conference on “Post harvest technology and value addition in cereals, pulses and oilseeds” at the Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology (CSA), young scientists at the University held a poster session highlighting the new researches relating to value addition in the agricultural product here on Tuesday. Over two dozen of posters were displayed on the occasion informing the visitors about the works of the scientists.
Flex fibre
RITU PANDEY and Rekha Dayal, the two scientists at the CSA have discovered that blending of flax jute in a proportion of 80:20 was the best in almost all the characteristics with regard to weaving the fine cloth. They have also discovered that among the flax cotton blends 20:80 ratio was superior in the performance than other blends. However, one hundred per cent of flax showed the best performance in maintaining the cloth quality.
According to Ritu textile mills imported flax for blending, which incurred heavy import bill of Rs 40 crore every year. They said that import bill could completely be ‘zeroed’ if the growers in the country were encouraged to produce flax. They suggested that the farmers should be encouraged to grow the dual purpose variety of the flax as it could be used for industrial and also for textile. Farmers can increase profitability by selling flax fiber for textile, they said.
Since the flax could be processed at the rural industries villagers should be encouraged to set up processing industries to ensure more profits. This is how they could add the value to flax.
Ritu said that the flax was the first fiber extracted by men for weaving cloth. It was the main ingredient for weaving high class linen cloth. If the indigenous flax were used to weave linen cloth it would become cheaper.
New method
Vinita Singh and Tripti of CSA under a value addition programme have developed a method to prepare a Bengali sweet ‘Sandesh’ with mixing the soya milk in the cow milk. Sandesh prepared with this mixture would be economical and nutritious.
According to them during their experiments they prepared Sandesh with three different types of blending proportion. In the first blending, they used 75 per cent of cow milk and 25 per cent of soya milk. The second blend was prepared by adding equal quantity of both the milk. In the third blend, they used 25 per cent of cow milk and 75 per cent of soya milk.
However, in their own assessment, the best quality of Sandesh was prepared with a blend of 75 per cent of cow milk and 25 per cent of soya milk. This Snadesh had 30 per cent sugar level and it could be kept in normal temperature conditions for seven days.
Paneer pickle
DR SARITA and Dr HB Diwedi succeeded in producing highly nourishing paneer with the buffalo milk and soya milk. According to them the chemical analysis of the newly developed paneer proved that it was highly useful for the pregnant women, as it had maximum quantity of nutritious contents besides it had also all the necessary ingredients required by a growing child.
On the other hand, Kavita Sharma and Neetu Sharma have developed value added soya products with the help of the trained farmwomen. They claimed if the farm women were trained in adding value to soya they could fetch handsome money for their livelihood.
Wheat quality
EXPERIMENT ORIENTED researches of LK Misra and AB Abidi have proved that addition of phosphorous and zinc in the soil could improve the quality of wheat varieties. According to them the interaction between the zinc and phosphorous was found significant in the case of protein contents in wheat.
