JOC Staff | Nov 07, 2012 12:55PM EST
India today opened the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, in Kundli, Haryana, which will offer education, research and management programs specific to the food industry.
The center is intended to alleviate the food processing sector’s lack of skilled labor and needed infrastructure, among other issues, according to Sharad Pawar, the country’s minister of agriculture and food processing industries, who inaugurated NIFTEM. It will specifically focus on subdivisions of food processing, such as dairying, cereal-based products, animal protein, beverages, confectionery and fruit and vegetable-based foods, as well as overarching themes like management, packaging, food standards and testing, Pawar said.
India’s food processing sector has been growing faster than agriculture and manufacturing, he added.
