Tuesday, December 28, 2010

We need to develop new food products from indigenous raw material: Dr Patil

Ludhiana, December 27:



"India is blessed with very diverse kind of raw material. But, still we have not tapped the potential for developing variety of food products like people have done in United States and Western Countries." These remarks were made by Dr R.T Patil, Director, Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), during inaugural of 11-day long training on Agro-Process Equipment Design for Research Engineers of All India Coordinated Research Projects (AICRP) on Post Harvest Technology (PHT).



While research engineers from across countries are participating in the training programme, experts from outside country would also be delivering lectures. More than 40 lecturers on diverse issues including extrusion processing of expanded products, formulation of food products through linear programming, design of axial follow thresher, prediction modeling in post harvest technology, design of groundnut grader, basket centrifuge, electrical controls in processing equipment, innovate mechanical designs by common men etc would be delivered.



Saying that second green revolution is only possible through post harvest, Dr R.T Patil, said that India had not been able to use its raw material fully. "We lot of variety of crops but still are confined to traditional foods only. Rice is still used for producing only 'Idli' and 'Dosa' from ages. Why cannot we produce biscuits from it," he said, adding that new ideas need to be incorporated in the research. Emphasizing that food is a multidisciplinary commodity; he said that inputs from various disciplines of sciences were required for developing any food. "That's why we say CIPHET is Mecca having all the disciplines under one roof".



Showing un-satisfaction on low standards of cleanliness maintained in food processing, Dr Patil, said that if we want to sell our products globally, then production facilities should also be of that standard. Hoping that training programme would enable research engineers working under AICRP (PHT) to upgrade their knowledge, he said that in the highly competitive scenario, one could not survive without regularly adding to knowledge. Dr S.K Nanda, Project Coordinator (PHT), said that they tried to provide comprehensive training programme to refresh the knowledge of the participants.



Terming this kind of training programme highly useful, Dr S.K Sehgal said that all the researchers working in ACIRP's should be given a chance to upgrade their knowledge in upcoming training programs. Dr Deepak Raj Raj, Head Transfer of Technology Division, hoped that programme would prove useful for the participants. Dr Sangeeta Chopra, Senior Scientist at CIPHET, presented a vote of thanks.


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