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Basic Details
Research Project Feasibility study of Jaggery making and related products
Name
Domain Food and Agriculture
Faculty Supervisor Prof. Sanjay M Mahajani
Research Team- Pankaj Verma (Ph.D., Student, Pre-Synopsis completed),
members Sneha R Iyer (Ph.D., Student),
Sravan Kumar (Ph.D., Student),
Vishambhar Chavan Patil (Senior Project Technical Assistant),
Rohit Kumbhar (Project Staff)
Pravin Patil (Project Staff)

Project start date

Duration of project
Brief description of Jaggery is an Indian traditional agri-product, produced on a
project
large scale and responsible for creating a source of livelihood
for farmers. Furthermore, jaggery as a food product is highly
nutritious with its rich source of micro-nutrients. Being a
perishable product, it does not fetch a substantial profit
margin for farmers. research on scientific understanding of
the traditional process, its development and engineering,
detailed region-specific characterization of raw material and
product, investigating and establishing nutrition benefits of
jaggery to expand its market beyond the present one as a
traditional sweetener, understanding the current and future
market, and development of value-added products from
jaggery.

Present SRL of SRL 6-7

Project
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Details of work
completed  Studies have also been conducted on the higher shelf
stability of jaggery powder over blocks.
 Successful preliminary trials for jaggery making as per
market requirement, however scale-up is challenging.
 Commencement of market research
 Mobile jaggery prototype completed
 Trials with mobile jaggery making unit testing on field
 Powder jaggery making patent filed
Details of ongoing  Working in collaboration with MAVIM (Mahila Arthik Vikas
work Mahamandal)
 MVP of mobile jaggery plant
 Troubleshooting powder making system (major changes
required in powder making system to operate in continuous
mode)
 Tie-up with Mellows for economic feasibility study
 Powder jaggery Drying setup design and fabrication
Planned Milestones
3 to 6 months
 Clarification and crystallisation study and its dependency on
cane quality (Brix, reducing sugars, phosphate content etc.)
 Process Modification-Scale-up of Juice clarifier
 Crystallization prototype design for powder making
 Outcome analysis of market research

SRL aimed at end of SRL 7

6th month
6 to 12 months  In-plant clean laboratory room setup for immediate(on
field) analysis (instruments like Polarimeter, Optical
Microscope and UV-Vis spectrophotometer)
 Take trials on lab-scale crystalliser to make powder and
solid jaggery (in batch or continuous). Similarly, for clarifier
take trials on automation in settling and floating
clarification, both for batch and continuous mode.
 Demonstrate the effect of sugarcane juice quality (Brix,
reducing sugars, phosphate content etc.) on clarification,
using on lab-scale prototypes.
 Demonstrate the effect of non-sugar ingredients (in
 sugarcane juice) in crystallisation.
 Process optimisation foroptimisation for clarification and
crystallisation based on sugarcane quality.
SRL aimed at end of SRL 8
12th month

Support needed from TCTD

Field related / NGO yes
connection
Industry connection yes
Lab-to-market Inputs required regarding business model development and scale-
strategy up
Any other feedback On field lab facility for analysis mandatory as the product is
or suggestions sensitive to ambient condition.

Support received from TCTD within the previous year Name of Faculty (EC Member
of TCTD), Project Manager,
Staff, TCTD Lab Staff, others
Field related / MAVIM (SHG) Mr. Gopal Mahajan (Assistant
NGO Project Manager)
connection
Admin Support MoU with Mellows General Manager
Industry Obtained industry contact through you TCTD Media Team
connection tube channel.

Lab-to-market
strategy
Any other Fabrication support TCTD Media Team, Machine
support Social media support lab Staff
received Market research study collaboration
with SJSOM Mrs. Gayathri
Thakoor(General Manager)
Prof. Arti D.Kalro (EC Member
of TCTD)
 Prof. Sarthak Gaurav ( Faculty
SJSOM)
Any other
feedback or
suggestions

If you have Tata Fellow, please provide any feedback for his/her contribution to the project

Please provides images of experimental setup / proof-of-concept / prototype (Do not

disclose IP content)
Pictures: Prototype and field trials of mobile jaggery unit