ABOUT
The Department of
Food Technology was activated during 1996 and it started
its academic activities in 1998 as per provision of
PC-I of Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam. The
purpose of establishment of this department is to
meet the requirements of trained manpower for strengthening
food science and industry in the country and to impart
quality education and to carry out research in various
discipline of food technology to benefit the farming
community. Recently it has been upgraded to the level
of Food Sciences & Technology, As has been seen
that most of the agriculture produce are wasted up
to 40% due to lack of knowledge and shortage of trained
manpower in the field of processing, preservation
and post harvest technologies. The Institute has given
emphasis on value addition of different agricultural
produce such as cereals, fruits and vegetables through
training the manpower and conducting research on these
aspects of processing and post harvest technology
to reduce these losses. Apart from these activities
the Institute of Food Sciences & Technology is
also engage in developing processing technologies
to convert the waste produce into its consumable form
so that it can be consumed by human being as food
and can fulfills the nutritional requirement, in impoverished
rural areas of Sindh / Country.
