Abstract
The food industries are producing huge quantity of waste, resulting from the production, preparation and consumption of food. Pea processing industry involves preserving peas by freezing and marketing them for seasonal limitation and producing a very high amount of waste as by-product. This huge waste causes significant environmental issues and economic losses. The present study was aimed to value addition and utilizes pea peel waste in an efficient way for developing biodegradable product. Nutritional analysis revealed that waste pea peels have high nutritive value of crude protein (19.79%), and have good amount of ash (7.87%), fat (2.27%) and fibre (1.83%). The result revealed that the developed biodegradable film has good tensile strength (5.96 MPa), surface thickness (70 µm) and water solubility (2.46%). Therefore, biodegradable film can be the use as subsitude of synthetic plastic with the advantage of employment generation, energy recovery and livelihood security which ultimately leads to sustainable environment and development
Agriculture based industries are the large or small scale industries, generally derived their raw material from agriculture products like vegetables, fruits, rice, sugar cane, etc. and related to production, processing, and packaging of these products using modern technologies and methods. The food processing industry is one of the incredible sectors with huge potential for development, growth and export. This industry observed as a boosting segment for the agricultural economy. Agroindustries, mainly the food industry, besides benefits, produce huge amounts of solid or liquid organic wastes, which appear not only from processing but also from the production and consumption process. The quantity and composition of these wastes depend especially on the source of raw material and the type of processing steps, operations, and products. Pea (Pisum sativum) is a cool-season crop and one of the most important legumes, grows either alone or in combination with small grains, in the temperate climatic regions and it has been widely consumed as a legume or vegetable throughout the world for satisfying the purpose of human consumption as well as animal feeding. With the invention of canning, freezing, and cold storage, various pea processing industries make efforts to preserve and marketing them so that seasonal crops became available year-round.
Keywords
Pea Peel, Pea Processing Industry, Byproducts, Biodegradable Film, Livelihood Security, Agroindustry, Agro Waste Management
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