RIPENING TRAINIGS IN TAMILNADU

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Tamilnadu stands first in initiating action against carbide ripening in the country. The Health

and Marketing Departments issued a notification stating that the carbide ripened fruits

information to be given to the department and provided mobile numbers for reporting carbide

ripening.

The importance of Ripening chambers will be seen from the production particulars of banana,

Mango and Papaya.

Fruit crop Million Metric tones

Banana 05.65

Mango 0.79

Papaya 0.001

The State is the fourth largest producer of horticultural crops in the country. Tamil Nadu

produces 22.00 m. MT of horticultural produce from an area of 1.49 m. ha. and accounts for

7.9% of total horticultural production in the country.

Tamil Nadu is the leader in production of banana and accounts for 19.0% of total production of banana in the country.The State produces 5.65 m. MT of banana from an area of 0.12 m. ha. with productivity of 47.9 t/ha.The producing belts are Thoothukudi, Coimbatore, Erode, Kanyakumari, Madurai, Vellore, Thanjavur, Thiruvannamalai, Salem, Nilgiri, Karur, Tiruchirrapalli and Tirumelveli. Regarding Mango it is the eighth largest producer of mango and accounts for 4.3% of total production of mango in the country. The State produces 0.79 m. MT of mango from an area of 0.16 m ha. with productivity of 4.9 t/ha. The production of mango concentrated in the regions of Coimbatore, Dharampuri, Dindigul, Madurai, Vellore, Theni, Krishnagiri, Thiruvallore, Tirunelveli and Salem. Papaya contributes to 3.6% of total production of papaya in the country. State produces 0.20 m MT of papaya from 0.001 m ha of area with productivity of 198.7 MT/ha which is the highest among papaya producing States in the country. Major papaya producing belts in the state are Coimbatore, Erode and Tripur.

The trainings are planned as per the production of banana and Mango, scope business

development in the area.

EVALUATION REPORT-ERODE

Duration : 2 day training program on ripening chambers for fruits Date : 29th Feb & 01st March 2016 in Erode

Sl.no Particulars Remarks

1 Detailed curriculum

enclosed

2 List of faculty with brief profile enclosed 3 List of trainees enclosed 4 List of representatives of ripening chambers participated enclosed a.)Ripening chambers in Erode enclosed b.)Ripening chambers outside Erode enclosed c.) Opinion of the representatives of ripening chambers where

training is required. Place where training requested in future as opined by representatives of the ripening chambers.

enclosed

5 Employment generated enclosed 6 Feedback from agricultural university enclosed 7 Feedback from trainees enclosed 8 Feedback from faculty enclosed 9 Photos taken during training programme enclosed a.)First day of training program inauguration and classroom photos enclosed b.)Hands on training & Field visit to ripening chamber enclosed

ERODE - DETAILED CURRICULUM

DAY -1: DETAILS | DATE: 29/02/2016

From To Details Topic

8.30 AM 9.00 AM Registration & Break fast Registration

9.00 AM 9.30 AM Inauguration Particulars as under

INAUGURATION - GUESTS ON DIAS

1 Shri.Janagan Joint Director,(Horticultute) Chief guest

2 KV.Sundara Sundappan

Asst.Director (Horticulture) Guest Speaker

3

Shri.AbbuMounik Director, Samagra Agri- Business Servicess Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad

Guest Speaker

4 Udaykumar Asst Director ,Horticulture Guest Speaker

5 Mr.Kashmir Lively hood specialist Guest Speaker

6. Srinivasan Smoke Chamber Guest speaker

LIST OF FACULTY WITH BRIEF PROFILE

Jaganan.P Shri Jaganan is Joint Director of Agriculture.He is having more than 25 years’ experience in dealing with farmers problems and able to guide them towards the

cultivation of better crops for more profits. He is experienced with banana farmers, can able to linkup farmers to the traders.He explained the farmers how to ripen the Bananas in ripening chambers.

Sundara Sundappan.KV. Sri.Sundappan is Asst.Director of Horticulture, experienced in cultivation and ripening of Banana. Ripening unit for banana. Sundappan has more than 10 years’ experience in Trainings in horticulture. Several training programs for farmers are conducted.

C. Abbu Mounik Director, Samagra Agribusiness Services Pvt. Ltd B.E(ECE) Experienced in Ripening Chambers i.e. planning and execution. Modeled with new generation vision by attending and mapping best possible methodology in encouraging other youngsters like him. Has participated in international conferences. Procedure s of obtaining permissions for submission of Application for subsidy

Dr.Ahmad Hussain Project Associate, Samagra Agribusiness Services Pvt. Ltd. Doctorate in agriculture 23 summers of experience spread over in Farm extension, resource mgt for crop production & master trainer in farm production PHT & good agricultural practices for global certification of farm produce winner of meritorious extension personnel award, nominated for young Muslim scientific award, Scientific advisor for Janan vignana vediks & city library.

Dr.AP Rao Project associate,Samagra B. Sc.,Has sound knowledge in the field of irrigation, plantation and horticulture, animal sciences including dairy, poultry, fisheries and piggery. Practical experience in appraisal techniques of agricultural projects including cash flow analysis, credit management appraisal and credit risk assessment. Specialist officer in State Bank of India looking after the banks appraisals of Horticulture, Dairy and Poultry. Joined State Bank of India as Rural development Officer (RDO) in 1979, retired as AGM technical in 2012.

Udaya Kumar Assistant Director of Horticulture and has been implementing several development programmes in Horticulture in the district. He is active in intermediating implementation of several horticulture development programmes in the District He has also formed several farmers’ groups for growing of fruits and vegetables systematically in the taluk. Takes keen interest in integrating the production and marketing efforts of fruit and vegetable growers. ERODE - DETAILED CURRICULUM

DAY -1: DETAILS | DATE: 29/02/2016

FROM

TO

SESSION

TOPIC

SPEAKER

10.30 AM 11.15 AM First session Introduction, Natural & Artificial

Ripening

Mr.Jaganan

Joint

Director(Horticulture) 11.15 AM Tea

11.30 AM 12.30 PM Second Session Different ripening techniques

Potential and Pre market study Points to be considered before

going for Ripening chambers

Sundappan.K.V. Asst

Director (Horticulture)

12.30 PM 1.15 PM Third Session Ripening chamber components

Insulation, Refrigeration system Humidification, Ethylene

maintenance

Shri.Udaya Kumar

Asst.Director(Horticulture)

01.15 PM

02.00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

02.00 PM 2.45 PM Fourth session Permission and Clearances

required from Government,etc

Sri.Abbu Mounik

02.45 PM 03.30 PM Fifth session Permission and Clearances required by Bank

Mr.C.A.Mounik Director,Samagra

Agribusiness

3.30PM

4.00 PM

Tea Break

4.00 PM 5.00 PM Sixth Session

Post Harvest Technologies and

open session/Importance of ripening

Sri.Sundappan

Asst. Director

ERODE - DETAILED CURRICULUM DAY -2: DETAILS | DATE: 01/03/2016

FROM

TO

SESSION

TOPIC

SPEAKER

09.00 AM

10.00 AM

Breakfast

10.00 AM 01.00 PM Visit to ripening

chamber

Smoke Ripening

Chamber

Srinivasan

01.00 PM

02.00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

02.00 PM

03.15 PM

Third session

Operations &

Maintenance of Ripening Chamber

Pre loading of fruits: Functions

Washing

Cleaning

Arranging

in crates Ethylene

Maintenance:

Ethylene

release Release of

carbon

dioxide

Shri.Udaykumar

03.15 PM

03.30 PM

Tea Break

03.30 PM

04.45 PM

Fourth session

Project details Project

preparation, Subsidy Norms &

Obtaining bank

loan

Shri.AbbuMounik, Director, Samagra

04.45 PM

05.15 PM

Open session

Shri. AbbuMounik, &Jaganan

Sundappan,Udaykumar

05.15 PM

05.45 PM

Validation of

Training

Sri. Mounik Samagra Agribusiness

LIST OF TRAINEES PARTICIPATED: s.no Name Mobile no Occupation

1 K.Renganathan 9442749226 Trader

2 P.Raju 9344106183 Trader

3 S.Sarvanan 9245710624 Trader

4 C.Krishnaveni 9487785772 Trader

5 T.S.Sugavana Sivaprakasam 9443520832 Trader

6 T.Pannier Selvam 9791844705 Trader

7 A.R.Shanmugam 9003991073 Trader

8 R.Govindarajan 9443731212 Trader

9 P.Periyasamy 9790462682 Trader

10 K.Subramaniyan 9095909999 Trader

11 K.Jagathisan 9443258573 Trader

12 C.Sarathkumar 8883484736 Trader

13 A.Mahan 9787701717 Trader

14 P.S.Tharamalingam 9968911289 Trader

15 P.k.Panchamuthu 8124203828 Trader

16 P.Cinnusamy 9443265459 Trader

17 M.Sarvanan 9443365392 Trader

18 R.Eshwara Moorthy 9789562602 Trader

19 S.Kumaresan 9360099600 Trader

20 L.Shanmuagam 9629280851 Trader

21 R.Raja 9685711599 Trader

22 N.Kandasamy 9524533225 Trader

23 S.Selvi 9025256908 Trader

24 S.Angayarkani 9952244448 Trader

25 A.Venkateswaran 7708315632 Trader

26 M.Maruthupandiyan 7200227217 Trader

27 G.Ashok kumar 7639036039 Trader

28 A.Thiruvannamalai 9543528186 Trader

29 C.Sivakannan 8344303806 Trader

30 R.Selvi Trader

LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES OF RIPENING CHAMBERS PARTICIPATED

Sl.No Name of the ripening Chamber and

Address

Name of the

Representative

Opinion on proposed

place of training

1 Smoke Ripening Unit Srinivasan Erode

Smoke fruit ripening chamber is situated in the Erode near to fruit market. The proprietor Shri.Srininvasan, Erode s forefathers hailed from neighboring district doing the fruit trading since their coming to Erode 10 years back. Now they are well established and are leading buyers sellers in the private fruit market. They are ripening fruits in the old fashion and would like to shift to Ethylene Ripening Chamber.. When we have enquired about the production of Banana fruit they opined that area under banana is plenty and marketing posing lot of difficulty. Progressive farmers requested for marketing arrangements.

PREPARATION FOR THE SESSIONS: After receiving the approvals for conducting trainings from National Centre for Cold Chain

Development (NCCD), we have contacted Agricultural Research stations,Banks Regional offices

Mandi Board,Fruit Ripening Chambers owners,fruit Traders,Horticulture Department ,the

response is overwhelming.

While the trainings were sanctioned by NCCD for 25 trainees per batch, the local response from

youth was more. At the registration time approximately 40- 50 candidates showed up to

participate. All the candidates preregistered and last minute showings are also allowed to

participate in the training.

AGENDA: EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

As this is the first program of its kind, unemployed learned skills suitable for running ripening

chambers. Owners of the Ripening Chambers promised to give employment to the trained

persons in due course of time.

These trainings are planned on written demand of owners of Ripening Chambers infrastructure,

who also assured employment opportunity to the trainees. The prospective employers ie:

ripening chamber owners allowed practical trainings in their facility and actively participated

with the trainees, and clear the doubts of trainees during the practical session.

It’s a dawn of new beginning the present generation is beginning to understand the importance

and benefits of the industry. We hope to see an upcoming change in due course of time.

Actual employment generated will be monitored and reported to the NCCD

FEEDBACK FROM AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

Experts from the agricultural college , expressed the necessity for such program by

which sustainable livelihood can be created to the youth. This program helps in creating

awareness about the ill effects of carbide use besides raising the issue of safe and scientific

ripening chambers for fruits.

Youth who undergo this training program would be able to handle the ripening

chambers in scientific and systematic way. Moreover they themselves can successfully become

potential entrepreneurs by taking up ripening chambers as agriculture allied activity. Thereby

they are able to create employment and also become job providers rather than job seekers.

This program would help representatives of the ripening chambers to know the scientific

and systemic approach to handle their existing units. There by able to cut down the lapses in

handling and save the quality of the fruit and gain economical benefits.

The unskilled workers from the ripening chambers would be the best benefitted as they

able to understand the scientific principle behind every operation they use to perform earlier.

Even a small skill they learnt during the program would help them to handle the existing unit

with more science and precision. This in long run would help the unit to gain efficiency and

quality output for sustainable economical benefits which would trigger entrepreneurial activity in

this direction which has direct bearing on employment generation.

FEEDBACK FROM BANKERS AND INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Joint Director of Horticulture, suggested the entrepreneurs to come forward to take up

ripening infrastructure for which he is ready to allot space in the Market Yard.. He also stated

that ripening chamber technology is first of its kind in Erode, they haven’t got such sort of

proposal till today, if any ripening chamber proposal with proper paper work is submitted to

bank will be encouraged and getting sanction of loan from the Bank.

Sri.Srinivasan, requested for conduct of more number of such trainings in view of

demand, and requested to take up ripening chambers as many as possible in the coming

mango season. He also said that many farmers are intending to go for Ripening Chamber

construction.

FEEDBACK FROM TRAINEES

The participants are very happy for the skill development and the initiative taken by the

NCCD to educate and train those regarding ripening, Government help to public regarding

ripening chambers which is not known to most of the public.

They suggested that more such training programs should be conducted in different

places of Maharashtra which will enable people to know about natural ripening and help them

to do natural ripening using ripening chambers with the government help.

The participants expressed that government should implement the ban on carbide usage

in ripening of fruits.

They opined that government organizations Self Help groups (SHG’s), Consumer

protection Associations should be involved in conducting campaigns in educating the general

public about harmful effects of carbide and advantages of ethylene ripening. Many activists

attended the program and expressed that a protest against carbide ripening should made at

Erode for which they need support from the government.

An approach must also be initiated for awareness, for a basic start by printing of

pamphlets and posters in market areas for bringing awareness. The training program is

practical hands on experience and very helpful in understanding the operations of ripening

chamber and how the Government is actively available to support the cause.

FEEDBACK FROM FACULTY

The faculty opined that the general public should be educated that ethylene ripening is

similar to natural ripening and hence the point may be highlighted.

To encourage purchasing ethylene treated fruits incentive for ethylene treated fruit may

be sanctioned by government NHB/NHM to the penultimate consumer.

The faculty is very happy for the different category of public present which is covering

all segments of people such as.

Unemployed youth.

Traders.

Farmers.

Entrepreneurs.

Agripreneurs.

PHOTOS TAKEN DURING TRAINING PROGRAMME ERODE Visit to Ripening chamber-Erode