When we catch up with Rajasree R, she is in the midst of preparing jackfruit-based delicacies for a television interview. The agripreneur has been busy ever since she was chosen for the ‘Best Jackfruit Processor/Other Value Addition 2021’ award instituted by the Kerala Government. “It is an encouragement for me and for those who have been promoting value-added products of jackfruit,” she says.
While the products are processed and manufactured at a unit she runs in Panayil near Nooranad in Alappuzha, where she hails from, she markets them from her residence in Thiruvananthapuram. Besides value-added products from jackfruit, she sells products made of banana, tapioca and organic rice that are grown at her farm under the brand, Fruit n’ Root, launched nearly six years ago.
