- Chiba Shoyu Co., which has a 170-year history, plans to direct a pilot project on normally fermenting soy sauce in India.
- In September, two Indian business leaders visited the soy sauce creator’s manufacturing plant to see the fixing’s creation cycle.
A long-laid-out soy sauce producer in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, has sent off a drive to have conventional Japanese soy sauce creation flourish in India with an eye to the immense market possible there.
The joint effort among Japanese and Indian organizations for soy sauce creation became conceivable after the Japan Worldwide Participation Office (JICA) endorsed Chiba Shoyu’s proposition for JICA’s business experimental run program.
Traditional Japanese Soy Sauce Production
For the program, which has been set up since financial 2022, JICA looks for organizations for strategic agreements that can assist with settling issues in agricultural nations and popularize the plans by supporting the organizations with appropriations.
Chiba Shoyu expects to hand off to an Indian organization the soy sauce creation innovation that it has produced for a long time, where the key fixing, koji, is produced using soybeans, and maturation stock, made by blending the koji and salt water, is matured and developed.
Avantika Sinha, 31, the leader of a café organization in New Delhi, and Ankur Chawla, 36, chief of the organization, visited Japan on Sept. 24-29, during which they noticed the creation of koji and different cycles to deliver soy sauce at Chiba Shoyu on Sept. 25-26.
Chiba Shoyu is looking to work with abroad organizations amid drowsy homegrown interest for soy sauce because of elements like the spread of Western food and a declining populace. Soy sauce isn’t normally consumed in India, however, the country’s populace is projected to surpass China as the world’s biggest before the current year’s over, raising the opportunities for India to develop into an immense market.