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THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS - IFEAT

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FLOWERS - PROCESSINGThe availability of raw material due to large scale cultivation as well as the acceptance and demand offloral products led to the development of a processing industry that is an ancient tradition in its ownright. Archaeologists have identified the presence of distillation apparatus during their excavations atthe over 5,000 year Harappan Civilization ruins.Fig. 5: Traditional flower distillationThese distillation equipment and practices are in existence even today in an almost identical form (Fig.5) for processing flowers (Fig. 6) like rose damascena and screw pine / kewda (Pandanusodoratissimus) primarily for the domestic Indian market.KewdaRose damascenaFig. 6: Flowers processed by traditional methods54

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