Solar power empowers: Solar-powered fish driers are now being used by some fisherwomen’s groups in Tamil Nadu, India

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2006) Solar power empowers: Solar-powered fish driers are now being used by some fisherwomen’s groups in Tamil Nadu, India. Yemaya (21). p. 12. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

In Chennai’s fishermen’s colonies, a solar-powered fish drier has brought in a revolution driving more and more women into scientific food processing and providing many a means for livelihood. It was a project that started in tsunami-hit Cuddalore district and now Chennai city has its own solar fish drier. Karuvaduor dried fish is a delicacy that 70-year-old Thangapapa has been making all her life. She buys fish and puts them on the sands to dry them out. It takes a full sunny day, sometimes two, for the fish to dry out.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM196
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Tamil Nadu, Women, Fish Drying, Fish Processing, Trade, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 17:13
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2022 07:24
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/352

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