18 Sep Value addition of agricultural produce: an evergreen technology for profit making
कृषि उत्पादाेे का मूल्य संर्वधन: लाभ कमाने की सदाबहार तकनीक Agriculture forms the backbone of Indian economy and even though there has been large industrialization in last 60 years, agriculture still occupies a place of importance. Agriculture has abled to provide us more or less food security, but, still failed in providing nutritional security. Value addition is one of important components of nutritional security. Sometimes surplus production is the cause of lower price of produce in market. One way to solve the problem is crop diversification which is responsible for a viable market system, creates opportunity to earn more as well as strong step toward nutritional security. Another step is value addition of agricultural produce. Crop diversification and value-addition are the two important techniques of profit maximization and important pillars of nutritional security. The most important problem facing the country today is, providing remunerative price to the farmers for their produce. This problem could be solved largely in the surplus production of cereals, vegetables, fruits, milk, fish, meat, poultry, etc., which are processed and marketed aggressively both inside and outside the country. The Value addition coupled with marketing has enormous potential of solving the basic problems of agricultural surplus and produce wastage. Also it can create rural jobs, provide remunerative price to farmers. What is value addition? Value addition is...