Prof D Chandrasekharam

“One of India’s proudest accomplishments has been achieving self-sufficiency in food production and that the country produces a wide variety of agricultural products at prices that are at or below world values in most cases”- states the office of the agricultural affairs of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is true and India can capture the world market if it utilizes the available geothermal resources for increasing the shelf life of these vegetables and earn huge foreign exchange. The dehydrated agricultural products are expensive since their price is linked to the thermal power cost generated from fossil fuels.  The cost can be curt drastically if geothermal resource is used for such purposes.  In the entire Europe, Latin American Countries and USA,  dehydration of agricultural produce is a multi-million dollar business. For more details on how India an gain ……..read the attached article in GeoHeat Bull 2001