NRCB transfers technology for producing micro nutrients mixture for banana crop to farmers producers group
- ByStartupStory | January 16, 2022
The ICAR – National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchi has been transferred the technology for making banana flour and power to cake bee, a city- based bakery and confectionery chain.
Additionally Tiruchi, Cake bee has a presence in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and other place in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
The bakery chain is said to be keen on popularising banana- based products and MoU was signed between the NRCB and Cake bee on Friday.
Ripe banana’s short shelf life of 2-3 days causes high post – harvest losses.
To conquer the problem, the NRCB had developed the technology for making flour from green banana and banana powder using effective and low cost foam mat drying and the same was transferred to the bakery.
Foam mat drying could be an alternative to the highly sophisticated spray and freeze drying.
It poses a concrete solution for utilisation of ripe, market rejected bananas for producing powder in a cost efficiently way, making it a boon for small and capital- sensitive food industries.
S.P Sethu subbaiah of cake bee deli fresh pvt Ltd expressed with the hope that the upcoming technologies learned from ICAR – NRCB will enable them to deliver quality and healthy food products to consumers and diversify their product portfolio with innovative options.
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