Handmade Pickle Making Unit
The unit focuses on the production of handmade pickles from fresh vegetables and fruits. The business involves cleaning, slicing, blanching, spice mixing, and jar fermentation to create shelf-stable pickle products.
Project cost & finance
Cost of Project
figures in ₹ Lakhs
| Plant & Machinery | 3.5 |
| Furniture & Fixtures | 0.5 |
| Working Capital | 2.84 |
| Total | 6.84 |
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Means of Finance
figures in ₹ Lakhs
| Own Contribution | 0.68 |
| Term Loan | 3.6 |
| Working Capital Loan | 2.56 |
| Total | 6.84 |
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Raw materials & machinery
Machinery & equipment2
- Spice grinderBuy on Amazon ↗
- Vegetable SlicerBuy on Amazon ↗
Raw materials7
- VegetablesBuy on Amazon ↗
- LimeBuy on Amazon ↗
- SaltBuy on Amazon ↗
- Turmeric PowderBuy on Amazon ↗
- Chilli PowderBuy on Amazon ↗
- Spices and OilBuy on Amazon ↗
- Packaging BottlesBuy on Amazon ↗
Manufacturing process
- Selection of fresh vegetables like cauliflower, carrot, ginger, garlic, green chili, turnip, and cucumber.
- Washing vegetables to remove impurities.
- Peeling to remove the outer skin of vegetables.
- Cutting vegetables into suitable slices.
- Blanching to inactivate enzyme reactions.
- Preparation of spices by frying followed by grinding.
- Mixing the spices and salts with the vegetable and filling into jars.
- Exposing the jar to sunlight for 7 days.
- Adding heated mustard oil after 7 days and packing the finished pickles.
From the project report
