PRAN, a leading agro-processing industry in the country, has set a target to procure 60,000 metric tons of mangoes for the current season.
With this aim, PRAN has already started mango collection and pulping activities like previous years. The conglomerate is collecting the ripe mango to manufacture mango drink, juice, mango bar and other food items.
Sarowar Hossain, Deputy General Manager of Barind Industrial Park (BIP) in Rajshahi inaugurated the activities through a program held at the park on Tuesday afternoon. The activity also has been started at PRAN Agro factory, Natore at a same time.
Sarowar Hossain said, “Mangoes of Rajshahi, Chapai Nawabganj, Natore, Naogoan, Pabna and its adjacent region are prominent across the country. We are collecting mangoes in our BIP factory from Rajshahi, Chapai Nawabganj and Natore factory from Natore, Naogaon, pabna and its adjacent region. In first phase, we are purchasing guti mango from first June and it will continue till middle of the July. After this, we will collect Ashwani varieties until the supply of mango.”
He also added that pulp is being produced in the plant following aseptic technology. The advantages of this technology is to preserve the pulps for two years maintaining its taste and freshness without freezing. In our plant, washing and peeling the mango, waste management, packaging of pulp and related all steps have been conducted without touch of hand.
This factories are completely environment-friendly as we produce organic fertilizer and energy from wastage of mango. The BIP and Natore plant have the capacity to crash 450 and 200 ton of mangoes every day respectively.
Kamruzzaman Kamal, Marketing Director of PRAN-RFL Group, said, “PRAN has started collecting a large amount of mango from the farmers of Rajshahi, Chapai Nawabganj, Naogaon, Natore and Pabna. After collecting the mango, we send it to our Natore and Rajshahi factories.
From the pulp, various kinds of mango juice and drinks and mango bar are being produced in the factories and we are exporting the product to 145 countries around the globe regularly.”
