National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Jamun (Syzygium cumini L.) a member of the family myrtaceae is a popular indigenous fruit of India. It has got very valuable place in Auyurvedic medicines. The Jamun is an important indigenous minor fruit of commercial value. Jamun fruits can be processed into excellent quality products such as Juice, Chock let, Jam, Cirup and seed powder etc. The objective of present is to work out cost, returns and profitability of Jamun processing. A list of Jamun processing units in Gadchiroli district were collected from the office of Mavim (Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal, Gadchiroli). From the list five fruit processing units who are running regularly were selected purposively for the present study. In order to fulfil the objective of cost, returns and profitability of Jamun processing, necessary primary data were collected from the sample Jamun processing units by the personal interview method using a structured schedule. The data collected pertains to the agricultural year 2019. For the analysis of processing of Jamun different cost concepts were used i.e. fixed and variable cost. Mainly three products were prepared from Jamun by the selected units i.e. Jamun juice, Jamun chatpata and Jamun seed powder during the year 2019.The study concluded that Jamun processing is highly profitable venture and has high potential for value addition in all the products.
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