India's first Mobile Honey Processing Van launched by KVIC

Highlights:

• India's first "Mobile Honey Processing Van" was launched by KVIC.
• Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chairman of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), has inaugurated the country's first Mobile Honey Processing Van in Ghaziabad's Village Sierra. KVIC's Multi-disciplinary Training Centre in Panjokehra designed the Mobile Van in-house at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.
• In just 8 hours, this transportable honey processing device can process up to 300 KG of honey. 
• The van is also outfitted with a laboratory facility that can measure the quality of honey in real-time.
• The Mobile Honey Processing Van is a significant step forward in KVIC's Honey Mission, which aims to train beekeepers, provide Bee Boxes to farmers, and assist rural, educated, and jobless youth in earning additional revenue through beekeeping.
• The KVIC has come up with this unique idea to enable beekeepers and farmers to earn fair rates for their honey output, in keeping with the Prime Minister's dream of a "Sweet Kranti" (Sweet Revolution) through honey production.
• KVIC has created the unique Mobile Honey Processing Van, which will process beekeepers' honey in their homes, saving them the time and expense of transporting the honey to processing plants in distant towns.
• While this will make beekeeping more profitable for small beekeepers, it will also ensure that honey is pure and of the greatest quality.