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District Watershed Development Unit - Jamnagar
Livelihood Intervention
Production system -1: Potato wafers production
Introduction:
In Gujarat, Banaskatha, Vadodara, Kheda, Mehasana, Jamnagar and Kachha districts have good production of Potato crop. Now a days potato
wafers become popular in cities as well as in rural areas. During the production season of potato it costs around Rs 5000 to 6000/- per tone. In this
business raw material of potato and vegetative oil is most important products.
Procedure for potato wafers:
1. Raw material: Potato should be of same size, mostly round and it should not have any disease or any whole on it. Material must be neat
2. and clean.
3. Classification: Grading should be done by manually or by machine to get single type of disease less potato.
4. Cleaning: As per need potato should be washed in running water to clean dust on it.
5. Removal of upper surface: The upper surface may get remove by manually or by machine, it need to maintain proper and continuous
pressure of water. Afeter this process potato should be sink in water having mixture of 0.1 % of Sodium sulfide or Sodium meta bisulfide
for further procedure.
6. Trimming: Once again material is to be scanned for removal of bad material by manually, it is known as trimming
7. Slicing: Slice of potato is to be done by using slicer or striper or if man power is more then it may be done by local instrument also.
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