Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd-Nuwara Eliya

Establishment of Vegetables Pack House

Increasing farmer income by marketing of high quality vegetables through establishment of a pack house and a minimal processing unit.

All members of the cooperative is benefited hence they are selling their fresh produce through the cooperative. The number of farmer members has increased up to 21 currently and those farmers are leading farmers who cultivate in large extent. Leek, carrot, cabbage, beet and lettuce are grown in large scale together with potatoes and other exotic vegetables. At present the society supply its major quantity of vegetables to leading supermarkets and hotels. Small volume of vegetables is sold to exporters and a reasonable quantity is minimally processed. Daily basis,approximately 3000 Kg of vegetables are sold as fresh,while 1000 kg is minimally processed.All vegetables produced in the cooperative are transported using plastic creates from the field to the pack house and from their again in plastic creates until fresh produce reaches the supermarket. Demand for high quality vegetables is increasing in the country. Although there is a ready demand for cleaned vegetables the required volume cannot be supplied due to limited facilities available at the pack-house. Due to this problem total volume of produce of all members cannot be purchased. Although there is a ready demand for cleaned vegetables the required volume cannot be supplied due to limited facilities available at he pack-house hence, they have to find other marketing channels. If the capacity of the pack house can be increased by mechanizing and providing improved facilities, total volume of all members can be marketed through the cooperative. In addition, minimally processed vegetables have a high demand and the demand cannot be met due to insufficient facilities available at AgCo.The volume can be increased by introducing machineries to produce minimally processed vegetables.More members can then be encouraged to register to expand the society.

Implementing Agency:

All Island Agriculture Cooperative Society Ltd (AgCo) at Blackpool, Nuwara Eliya. (Technical support from Food Research Unit, Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya).
Managing Director, AgCo, Black pool, Nuwara Eliya

Goals of the project:

Increasing farmer income by selling better quality vegetables and this benefit can be expanded among many farmers by increasing the membership.

Objectives of the project:

To increase the capacity of the pack-house by providing machineries for washing and cleaning.

To provide more facilities for cleaning and drying of vegetables.

To provide pre-cooling facility and temporary holding of produce in refrigerated storage condition.

Establishment of cold chain to supply better quality vegetables for export market.

Establishment of a minimal processing factory to supply minimally processed vegetables under hygienic condition.

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:42

Production of high quality seed potato using mini tubers in
collaboration with farmer groups

AgCo is a well established cooperative society in Nuwara Eliya and have the capacity to collaborate in the national seed potato production programme of the Dept. of Agriculture. Further some of the members of this society have already involved in the seed production programme carried out by PRS, Sita Eliya.

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 January 2012 21:14

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