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Brother, sister duo invents low-cost solution for preserving vegetables and fruits
03 March 2021
Two young entrepreneurs from Naya Tola Dudhela in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, Nikky Kumar Jha and his young sister Reshmi Jha, have come up with a low-cost solution for preserving vegetables and fruits fresh for 5 to 30 days, which would help avoid wastage of food in a big way.
Preservator/Sabjikothi is a wheel mountable storage for transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables. It is a cost-effective, microclimate based, portable storage that extends the shelf-life and preserve the freshness of fruits and vegetables anywhere between 5 to 30 days.
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India is the second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world. However, this abundance also brings along produce spoilage and wastage.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations says
40 percent of horticultural produce worth $8.3 billion is wasted every year due to inadequate logistical support, lack of refrigerated storage, supply chain bottlenecks, poor transport, and underdeveloped marketing channels.
This problem led
Bhagalpur-based agritech startup Saptkrishi in 2019 with his sister
Rashmi Jha, 20.
Sabjikothi or
Preservator, a low-cost, IoT-enabled chamber-cum-storage that can be used to extend the shelf life of horticultural produce from three days to 30 days. The
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