PROJECT PROFILE ON GINGER AND GARLIC PROCESSING

Abstract

Ginger & Garlic are important commercial crops cultivated through out the country with major poduction in the state of Gujarat, Orissa, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh. Garlic is mainly used as a condiment in food preparations and is also used as carminative and gastric stimulatn in many medicinal preparations. Processing of ginger is undertaken to dehydrate it and for preparing ginger candy. Ginger & Garlic-based products have wide applications in food processing as well as many other industries. A Proper market survey has to be conducted to find out demand potential for each industry segment.