A CORRESPONDENT
BOKO: Young girls from Kinangaon village, a Garo tribal village, are becoming self-dependent by making and selling jackfruit chips in the local market during the ongoing pandemic scenario.
Kinangaon village's young girls have started to make chips from jackfruit and bananas. Sansilla D. Sangma, a college student said, "Due to the pandemic, youths have lost their jobs and colleges also closed. So we decided to make chips from the locally available food items. We found jackfruits and bananas, which are easily available in the area."
Now, their handmade chips are available in the local markets in the Boko area. She added that they made 20 to 30 packets of jackfruit chips from only one jackfruit and they sold it for Rs 10 per packet in the market. On the other hand, 20 to 30 packets of banana chips are made from a bunch of bananas. People of the area are satisfied and have appreciated the young girls for taking up this endeavour.
Sasitha D. Sangma, another college student, said that they did not take any training before making the chips but they practiced several times in order to make delicious and crispy chips.
Benedict Alok Areng, resident of Kinangaon village and a regular customer, said that the quality of the chips was good. People can have the chips as snacks and they are healthier than the machine-made potato chips, he said.