AIWC promotes solar-dried veggies and fruits

All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), Hyderabad branch is on a missionto promote the usage of solar dried products in homes and hence conducted an event in the city. AIWC joined hands with Ohris Group of Restaurants to prepare different dishesusing theirsolar-dried food products, such as solar dried pasta, solar dried tomatoes, onions, bhindi, methi leaves, palak etc.

The programme was attended by women from various NGOs that are partner organisations of AIWC. Sunita Bhagwat, Commissioner, Tourism, Telangana state, was the guest of the day. Three other organisations displayed their solar dried foods, and two experts DrBamjiMahtab, Retd NIN officer and Nutrition scientist and Dr Srinivas Chakravarthy, Physicist who manufactures solar driers, spoke about the promotion of the products in the market. SupriyaBhalerao, Secretary of AIWC conceived the idea and executed it. The President Farida Hussain and other committee members explained the need for such products.

“Usage of Solar Energy in general, has become the necessity for the countries of the world. A lot of effort is going into generating power using solar energy. Women can use Solar Cookers and Solar Driers for cooking.They can dry vegetable and fruits, also different foods, in Solar Driers on a small or a big scale. They are dried in a scientific and hygienic manner to store in homes. The purpose is to have it available in our kitchen for an emergency, or in off-season, or for quick cooking,” they explained.