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.
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