WHEN tribal women go into forests in Udaipur district to pick fruits like jamun and sitaphal, they are always in a hurry to find the first buyer they can get. These fruits are so perishable that the price declines with every passing hour and with the odds stacked against them, the women invariably end up selling them cheap.
For some of them, however, perishability is no longer a problem. A refrigeration facility run on solar power allows them to keep the fruit for four to seven days.
At a local processing unit, they keep the pulp. . .
