Maharashtra HSC Multi-Skill Food Processing (NSQF) case studies
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The Maharashtra HSC Multi-Skill Food Processing (NSQF) is a vocational subject taken within the Higher Secondary Certificate stream under the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. It pairs board-level theory with NSQF-aligned skill units, so a Class 12 student leaves with both marks and demonstrable workshop competence in food handling, processing, preservation and packaging. The Maharashtra HSC Multi-Skill Food Processing (NSQF) case studies are 5 cases and about 4,872 words.
1The ₹5,100 groundnut lot: cold-press oil and aflatoxin risk
Ramesh runs a 60 kg/day cold-press (ghani) groundnut oil unit in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. In the third week of October, after unseasonal rain, a trader offers him 2 tonnes of groundnut kernels at ₹5,100 per quintal - about 12% below the normal rate.
947 words, about 5 min2900 litres from a broken-down van: routing milk at a chilling centre
A district milk union's chilling centre in Kolhapur receives 4,500 L on a Monday morning. Of this, 3,600 L arrives chilled at 4 °C from eight village routes.
978 words, about 5 min3The guava jelly that will not set: 200 kg and twelve days to Diwali
At a fruit processing unit in Nashik, a 200 kg batch of guava jelly has failed to set. The batch used 100 kg of Lucknow-49 guava - about one-fifth of the fruit slightly under-ripe and the rest fully ripe - 100 kg of sugar, 300 g of citric acid, and 400 g of a slow-set pectin added dry with the sugar.
965 words, about 5 min4Mould inside sealed rusk bags: the monsoon complaint at a Nagpur bakery
A Nagpur bakery supplies rusk and pav to 40 retail outlets. Rusk leaves the oven at about 6.5% moisture, is cooled on open trays for five hours in a room at 31 °C and 84% relative humidity, and is then packed warm at around 40 °C into 40-micron plain PP bags of 200 g.
921 words, about 5 min5Scaling an SHG mango pickle to a supermarket contract
Six women from a Ratnagiri self-help group make mango pickle in a home kitchen and sell 120 kg a month in 500 g glass jars to local shops, loose, with a handwritten label. A Pune supermarket chain offers 500 kg a month at ₹210/kg, but demands an FSSAI licence number, a printed label with nutrition information, a batch code, a barcode and a six-month best-before date.
1,061 words, about 5 min