Integrated Jackfruit Processing Unit

One of the most important tropical fruit grown in India is Jackfruit. It grows well and gives good yield in warm humid climate of hill slopes and hot humid climate of plains. Jackfruit is also known as the poor man’s food in the Eastern and Southern part of India. India is regarded as the motherland of Jackfruit. In India, it has wide distribution in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, the foothills of the Himalayas and South Indian States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The tender fruits of the tree are used as vegetables and the ripe ones as table fruits. The traditional types only produce fruit once a year. Depending on the area and the cultivar, flowering often begins around the middle of November and lasts until the middle of February. The market for tender fruits opens in March and remains open through August. The fruits begin to ripe in the month of June. The majority of India’s jackfruit is produced in the area that includes Assam and Tripura, with Assam producing an estimated 1,75,000 tonnes of jackfruit annually.