RAJSHAHI, April 10, 2019 (BSS) – Speakers at a training program on green mango processing stressed the need for proper processing and preservation of green mangoes fell from stalk before maturity due to various reasons considering their economic value.
Every year huge quantities of green mango drop immaturely due to storm or other natural calamities before harvesting time causing huge financial loss to the growers. There are many scopes of processing and preserving the fallen mangoes through adopting modern technologies to recover the financial loss of the growers, they said.
Postharvest Technology Division (PTD) of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) organized the two-day training on “Green Mango Postharvest Handling and Processing” at Fruit Research Station (FRS) here today.
The training program has been organized aimed at train up farmers on diversified use of green mangoes for producing different value-added products side by side with increasing shelf-life of green mangoes for longer consumption and marketing.
Chief Scientific Officer of PTD Dr Miar Uddin addressed the meeting as the chief guest and focal person while FRS Principal Scientific Officer Dr Alim Uddin was in the chair. District Agricultural Marketing Officer Monwarul Islam, Monitoring Officer from Ministry of Agriculture Khorshed Alam and Programme Director Dr Golam Ferdous Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.
Dr Miar Uddin said proper handling, processing, packaging, transportation and storage can help loss of substantial amount of immature mango every year.
He laid importance on disseminating the knowledge on the technologies developed by PTD for processing green mangoes and expanding those at growers’ level.
In the two-day training, the participants were given practical ideas and knowledge on preparing processed products like mango juice, mango bar, pickles, dried mango products, dehydrated and canned mango products.
More than 30 persons including mango growers both male and female, traders, school teachers and government and non-government officials joined the training.