Economics of Fruit Preservation as a Cottage Industry

Abstract

Although the fruit and vegetable preservation industry is a large one which has been highly standardized- .large quantities of surplus fruits and vegetables are preserved in numerous homes and small concerns all the world over.Large commercial concerns which make use of costly machinery and equipment which are often fully automatic with labour-saving devices,pack standard and uniform products for use at home and for the export trade.England,Australia,the U.S.A.and South Africa have built up a large export trade in preserved fruit and vegetables.Numerous homes in these contries,however,preserve their own fruits and Vegetables during seasons of plenty.Suitable small-scale equipment by way of can sealers.jam boiling pans,pressure cookers.etc.havebeen specially designed for this purpose.By propoganda and demonstrati- on.home preservation of fruits has become a safe process in the hands of the average house wife in those countries.In India,however,a beginning has yet to be made in this direction.In the meanwhile,small coop- erative concerns and the larger orchards can profitably take up the preservation of fruits on a cottage industry scale.The production of highly standardized*products in large well-equipped preservation factories employing automatic machinery and strict technicl control should be the ultimate aim.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194913

Pages

69 - 81

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Copyright

© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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