News Karnataka
Sunday, February 16 2025
Mangaluru

Work shop on Jackfruit and its various innovations

Photo Credit :

Mangalore: At the college campus of The Sarosh Institute of Hotel Administration in collaboration with Chowtara Krishi and Samskriti Vedike, Miyapadavu organized a day workshop on “The Versatility of Jackfruit in Cooking”, today.



MLA J R Lobo,was the chief guest of the programme . He was accompanied by corporator Sudesh Shetty, Dr Jayaprakash, agriculturist, Shree Padre, managing editor of Adike Patrike and others.

Speaking on the occasion, J R Lobo said, it is a unique opportunity for the people especially hotel management students where they can know about various delicacies prepared from Jackfruit.

Earlier Jackfruit was just like a common fruit and agriculturist never used to take care about it. But today, various programmes are being organized to spread the importance of Jackfruit and various innovations have taken place.

Lobo further added ,”we find many jackfruits getting wasted in several places. In this regard, a strategy must be chalked out so that the proper waste management can be done”.

Various delicacies were made using Jackfruit by the students with the help from Chowtara Krishi and Samskriti Vedike and was displayed during the workshop.

Dr Chandrashekar Chowta , scientist, agriculturist from Chowtara Krishi and Samskriti Vedike said “we try to bring Jackfruit which lost its importance in the past 30 decades to the mainstream by organizing these kinds of programmes”.

Not only in India Jackfruit is even grown in Vietnam . This is only fruit which is totally organic adding it is also nutritive, said Dr Chowta.

Jackfruit Manchurian, jelly, dosa, guliyappam, roti, parata, payasam, halwa were the various delicacies prepared.

MANY DROPS MAKE AN OCEAN
Support NewsKarnataka's quality independent journalism with a small contribution.
[ratemypost]
[addtoany]
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.