Fruit & Vegetable Unit, Delhi, India
- Fruit and Vegetable Unit was set up in the year 1988 by National Dairy Development Board, an institute of national importance, a body corporate created by Government of India, with an objective to provide a direct link between fruit and vegetable growers and consumers. The unit has drawn on NDDB's three decades of dairy sector strengths in designing it's state of the art large and ultramodern central distribution facility to handle fresh and frozen fruit and vegetable.
- Presently it is an unit of Mother Dairy Foods Processing Ltd, a wholly owned company of Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Ltd. In April 2000, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Ltd was created as a subsidiary of NDDB. The processed products of the unit are marketed with the brand name 'SAFAL'
- Unit complex is situated on 22 acres of land. It comprises a prefabricated building consisting of cold store chambers with different sets of temperature and humidity conditions suitable for storage of various fruit and vegetables. It has controlled atmosphere chambers and ripening rooms, deep freeze rooms, preparation hall, processing hall, dispatch hall, reception, dispatch facilities etc. Material handling is done in specially designed plastic crates with the help of forklifts.
- The Unit also initiates and supports production enhancement activities at farm, improved pre and post harvest practices, efficient logistics from farm to the retail outlets, scientific quality assurance and education of grower, support staff and consumer.
- Production of quality product begins at the farm level where the grower, in co-operation with unit officials, work to cultivate and supply quality produce to the Unit.
- With the utmost care and dedication, the growers and Unit officials try to apply their professional knowledge and skills to give consumers the best return for their money. Standards are defined for each fruit and vegetable so as to link price to quality. Procurement specialists and trained field staff help the farmers in crop management and protection. Efforts are made to introduce new seed varieties and scientific methods of agriculture to increase the yield and improve the quality of produce.
- 279 specially designed modern retail outlets have been set up in and around Delhi to market fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables, directly to the consumers. Each shop caters to large number of customers, with a capacity to sell 1,600 kilos of fruit and vegetables a day. The shops are equipped with electronic machines that automatically weigh the produce and print item wise bills. Unit also manufactures products such as Jam, Squash , Ketchup etc at its Ramgarh unit. Fruit & Vegetable Unit is IS/ISO-9002:1994 / DIN EN ISO 9002: 1994 & HACCP Certified Organization.
Fruit Processing Plant, Mumbai, India
- The 100% export oriented ultra modern Fruit Processing Plant was established in 1996 at Mumbai, capitalizing NDDB's food processing strength. All the equipments and technical know-how has been supplied by Sasib-Manzini Cosmaco SPA of Italy. The plant is located in the heart of India's finest tropical fruit growing region that produces finest quality mango, banana, guava, papaya, grapes and tomato in abundance.The ultra modern mechanized fruit processing plant has an annual processing capacity of 15000 MTS. There are twelve ripening chambers having a total capacity of 420 MT.
- The plant also have a facility to pack fruit pulp in 3.1 KG sterilized and hermetically sealed aluminum cans @ 1 MT / hr and a plat freezer to instantly block pulp @ 10 MT / hr. The frozen products can be shrink packed before dispatch in cartons. Other facilities in the plant include two tetra pack-filling machines for packing fruit drinks. The processing facility has obtained US Food & Drug Administration registration. HACCP quality system is followed at every stage. The unit is ISO9002 certified. The products are Kosher certified. Mumbai unit is a registered member of SGF, Europe.
- The fruit processing plant at Mumbai is engaged to process and refine products specially aseptic & frozen purees and concentrates from various varieties of finest tropical fruits such as mango, banana, papaya etc. These products can be packed in a plethora of bulk and small quantities in a wide range of packing materials. Fruit drinks in Tetrapacks are the other popular consumer products. The unit has established an office at Rotterdam in Netherlands to develop market at Europe , America and Asia. The unit enjoys active presence with all its products in Europe, USA, Canada , Australia, Middle East, Japan, Singapore and Hongkong. The unit also ensure its presence at major International Food/Trade fairs.
IQF Vegetables
Processed Food
Products for 100% Exports
- Mango Pulp/Concentrate
- Guava Pulp/Concentrate
- Alphonso Mango Pulp
- Papaya Pulp/Concentrate
- Banana Pulp/Concentrate
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