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Tomato Utilization: Techno—Economic and Social Aspects

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Tomato is the second largest fruit vegetable produced globally. The tomato price variation adversely affects the producers (farmers) and the consumers. Hence, bracketing the tomato prices within acceptable limits is a socio-economic and political challenge. The paper addresses possible valuable derivatives from good-quality tomatoes, ‘not-so-good’ tomatoes and waste of tomato processing industries. Two economical models based on public-private partnerships and other on cottage industry-based distributed manufacturing are proposed. Through a rigorous mathematical modelling, a decision-making tool can be developed which suggests the amount of tomatoes to be sold in the market and in food processing industries that will ensure stable tomato market.

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The authors are thankful to the Department of Science and Technology, India, for providing research grant (grant no. DST/TDT/TDP-02/2017) to undertake the work. BDK acknowledges the support from Indian National Science Academy.

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    Pranav D. Pathak

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

    Sachin A. Mandavgane

  3. CSIR-National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, India

    Bhaskar D. Kulkarni

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Pathak, P.D., Mandavgane, S.A., Kulkarni, B.D. (2023). Tomato Utilization: Techno—Economic and Social Aspects. In: Pathak, P.D., Mandavgane, S.A. (eds) Biorefinery: A Sustainable Approach for the Production of Biomaterials, Biochemicals and Biofuels. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7481-6_15

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