![]() Since the fruit has a very short shelf life - about two or three days - farmers are compelled to offload it quickly. Siddharth Patel, a farmer and entrepreneur in Bordi, says at least 15 to 20 tonnes of chikoo travel to Vashi market in Navi Mumbai for about half the year. ![]() There are about 800 chikoo families of growers in Bordi and Gholvad who own an average of five acres of chikoo orchards. “We wanted to show farmers a new way of augmenting their income.” ![]() We produce for the masses,” says Mahesh Parshram Churi, 65, who has invested in the Chikoo Parlour idea and grown it as a business. None of the Chikoo Parlours is in crowded city markets, but along thinly populated highways. The third and fourth are at a two-km distance from each other on the Mumbai-Nashik highway, in Vasind and Asangaon, respectively. The second one in Haloli is on NH-8 which connects Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The first Chikoo Parlour, with the tagline, Sabh Kuch Chikoo, came up in Bordi in September 2016. But with value addition and the setting up of the parlours, growers hope to reorder an unfair arrangement and make chikoo cultivation more profitable. Chikoos from here are unique and the Gholvad chikoo was awarded a Geographical Indicator (GI) tag two years ago.įor the longest time, growers have been reconciled to getting whatever they are given when their chikoos are sold at the Vashi wholesale market in Navi Mumbai. ![]() The coastal villages of Bordi and Gholvad in Dahanu taluk of Palghar district in Maharashtra are the epicentre of chikoo cultivation in India. The chikoo is rising and how! ‘Chikoo Parlours’ offering milkshakes, ice-cream, sweets, pickles, chips and more made from the fruit are slowly dotting highways along the North Konkan coast in Maharashtra. ![]()
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