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Innovation Model of Local Tunnel Solar Drier for Small Scale Entrepreneurship in Rural India

The paper presents the innovation of Shri Madan Lal Deora, a progressive farmer of Pali, district of Rajasthan in India who had established himself as a successful entrepreneur using self made tunnel solar drier. The solar tunnel dryer is a poly house framed structure with UV-stabilized polythene sh...

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Main Author: Singh, Dheeraj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009
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100 |a Singh, Dheeraj 
245 |a Innovation Model of Local Tunnel Solar Drier for Small Scale Entrepreneurship in Rural India  |c Singh, Dheeraj. 
260 |c 2009 
520 |a The paper presents the innovation of Shri Madan Lal Deora, a progressive farmer of Pali, district of Rajasthan in India who had established himself as a successful entrepreneur using self made tunnel solar drier. The solar tunnel dryer is a poly house framed structure with UV-stabilized polythene sheet, where products on large scale could be dried under controlled environment. The enterprise consists of different aonla products including juice, squash, candy, powder, pickle, dry aonla, churan tablets, preserve and ladoos. Aonla pulp from moisture content of 80.95 % to safe moisture content 9.0 % can be successfully dried in 2 days at the prevailing conditions in the drier. The enterprise manufactures two types of dry aonla, one is direct drying of green aonla which is used in a number of ayurvedic medicines and traditional drugs and another is the aonla dried after blanching which is used in as eating supplement of betel nut and as a mouth freshener. The farmer produces four types of preserve namely chutney preserve produced by making flakes of fruit ,preserve from big size fruits from improved cultivars, preserve from small size fruits from local cultivars and preserve aonla... 
650 |a Rural Areas 
650 |a  India 
650 |a Small Scale Entrepreneurship 
650 |a Local Tunnel Solar Drier 
650 |a Solar Energy 
650 |a Innovation Model 
650 |a Smes 
650 |a Small And Medium Enterprises 
650 |a Sme Sector 
650 |a Entrepreneurship In The Sme Sector 
650 |a Entrepreneurshiphip Research 
650 |a Eighth Biennial Conference On Contempora 
650 |a Biennial Conference Papers 
773 |a Eighth Biennial Conference on Contemporary Issues in Entrepr Research  |d March 19-21, 
999 |c 43044  |d 43044