KVIC rolls out innovative ‘Mobile Honey Processing Van’

The Mobile Honey Processing Van comes as a major development under KVIC’s Honey Mission

KVIC rolls out innovative ‘Mobile Honey Processing Van’

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the country’s first Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad, UP.

The Mobile Van has been designed in-house by KVIC at its multi-disciplinary training centre, Panjokehra, at a cost of Rs 15 lakh. This mobile honey processing unit can process up to 300 KG of honey in 8 hours. The van is also equipped with a testing laboratory, that would instantly examine the quality of honey.

KVIC has designed the van that will process beekeepers’ honey at their doorsteps and thus save them the hassle and the cost of taking the honey to processing plants in far off cities for processing. While this will make beekeeping a more profitable business for small beekeepers; this will also maintain purity and highest quality standards of honey.

This Mobile Honey Processing Van is likely to benefit the beekeepers in rural areas of states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan.

Based on the experience of the pilot project, more such mobile honey processing units, particularly in the North Easters states, will be rolled out, Saxena said.