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The business incubation centres to promote value-added products of jackfruit would boost the fruit to go global as the country produced jackfruit in huge quantities. more-inCreating incubation centres for jackfruit is the need of the hour, said Shree Padre, executive editor, Adike Pathrike, a farm monthly, and a crusader for jackfruit and its value-added products, on Sunday. Speaking after inaugurating a jackfruit festival at Perla, near here, he said that there was also a need for setting up centres to train people in how to prepare value-added products of jackfruit. Stating that jackfruit was a highly under researched fruit, he said that there was no research institute for jackfruit in the world. There is a passion for it there,” he said and added that supply of ready-to-cook tender jackfruit had demand in some cities too..