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Food Processing - A Growing Business
Sanjay Orpe, Jt. Managing Director, Hardikar’s Food Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune,
Maharashtra.
The picture of Indian Food Processing Industry is changing. Government initiative,
changing lifestyles, changing taste & habits, surplus incomes and increasing buying power
have created a great demand for “Processed Food” which rapidly on increase. Therefore the
growth rate is phenomenal.
Hardikar’s Food Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune, produces the following products
Fruit Powders of Kokam, Amala: Sweetened Fruit Powders of Mango, Pineapple, Jackfruit,
Sapota, banana and dried Fruit Slices (Osmotic) of Ripe Fruits like Mango, Pineapple
Sapota Banana, Papaya, Coconut. It also produces instant sherbat mixes from fruit powders
like Kokum, Mango, Amala.
It undertakes turn key work for Project Conceptualisation, Project Feasibility Study,
Project Design, Model Project Report, Machine Selection & Execution, Processing
Technology, Packaging, Marketing Guidenance as also Government Liasion.
It has undertaken a NAIP project tilted “A VALUE CHAIN FOR KOKUM, KARONDA,
JAMUN AND JACKFRUIT” with Dr. B.S. Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli, as the
Consortium Leader.
Hardikar’s current Kokunm product range includes Kokum Rind Powder, Kokum
Sarabat Powder (Instant) With Sugar & Without sugar Kokum Solkadhi Powder
(Instant), RTD Kokum Sarabat in Glass Bottle, RTD Kokum Solkadhi in Glass Bottle and
RTD Kokum Soda (Carbonated).
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Resource Book on Kokum (Garcinia indica Choisy)
Western Ghats Kokum Foundation, Panaji - Goa