CPCRI launches portable coconut sap chiller
The Kasaragod-based Central Plantation Crops Study Institute (CPCRI) has released a transportable coconut sap chiller for the collection of hygienic and unfermented sap (‘Kalparasa’) from the coconut spadix.
KB Hebbar, Head of Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Submit-Harvest Technological know-how of CPCRI, advised BusinessLine that while the institute experienced previously formulated a coconut sap chiller, manufacturing of it was a time-consuming method as it experienced to be assembled manually. With the improve in desire from the coconut-expanding States for the chiller, the timely offer of the device was a bit complicated.
He stated now the institute, with the fiscal aid from the Kochi-based Coconut Improvement Board (CDB), has developed and fabricated moulds required for the huge-scale output of coconut sap chiller. The moulds have currently been commissioned for the industrial output of the coconut sap chiller.
The new transportable coconut sap chiller is a double jacketed box produced of HDPE (High Density Polyethylene), insulated by polyurethane foam in among the jackets. The device has provision for positioning ice, a ‘Kalparasa’ collection container, a spadix holder, top rated lid, a funnel and provision to connect the box on the tree top rated. It has a collection potential of 3 litres of ‘Kalparasa’.
The coconut sap chiller is lighter in bodyweight, h2o proof, straightforward to connect to the spadix, demands considerably less ice, and retains low temperature for a extended time period as compared to commercially readily available ice bins, he stated.
Energy effectiveness
On the performance analysis carried out on coconut sap chiller at CPCRI and other areas, he stated the new HDPE chiller is hugely strength economical and the ice cubes final almost 24 hrs as in opposition to 10-12 hrs of the present bins. It is hugely cost productive, as the output is accomplished in factories using the moulds. The output cost has now appear down to all-around ₹850 per piece. This excludes packing, transport and GST. The prior product was costing far more than ₹2000 per piece, he stated.
Although there was a setback on coconut sap tapping owing to Covid, nonetheless almost 3,000 parts of the chillers had been procured by Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and West Bengal in the final couple months, he stated.
Many farmers and coconut producer organizations have expressed their interest to procure the chiller not only for tapping coconut but also for palmyra and date palm.
Built and formulated by Hebbar and AC Mathew, Principal Scientist at CPCRI, the institute has given licence to the Mangaluru-based Kalyaniram Polyplast Pvt Ltd to manufacture, pack and offer the requisite figures of chillers to stop people on behalf of CPCRI for those who sign technological innovation transfer with the institute.
He stated the sap collected by coco-sap chilller at low temperature is completely distinct from the ‘neera’ collected by regular technique with or with out preservatives, and therefore it was named as ‘Kalparasa’. He stated that ‘Kalparasa’ has been granted trade mark by Mental Assets India. Sap collected using the coco-sap chiller is golden brown in color, tasty and absolutely free from contaminants these types of as bugs, ants, and pollen and dust particles. It contained a lot of health advertising and marketing substances like polyphenols, anti-oxidants, nutritional vitamins, amino acids and minerals, he additional.