Food Processing

The B.Voc programme is focused on Universities and Colleges providing undergraduate studies which would also incorporate specific job roles and their National Occupational standards (NOSs) along with broad based General Education. This would enable the graduates completing B.Voc. to make a meaningful participation in accelerating India’s economy by gaining appropriate employment, becoming entrepreneurs, and creating appropriate knowledge.

In the year 2019-20, M.Voc. program was started to focus on vertical expansion of Post graduate degree and research level as provided under the UGC guidelines for Vocational education under NSQF with 24 intake capacity.

Department of Food Technology and Research have collaborated by signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya, Farm to Fork Solution, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai & GloBiL’s Agri & Food enterprise, Jammu Kashmir.

Department of Food Technology and Research regularly organizes different programmes and seminar for the students such as Celebration of National Nutrition Week, National Consumer Day, FoSTaC training, State Level Seminar on “Scope & Opportunities of Food & Dairy Processing Sector in Government Organization & Regulatory Agencies, World Food Day, National science Day, etc.

Department of Food Technology and Research have organized study tours for the students in different food industry such as Mala’s & Mapro Industry, Satara, Paras Dairy, Newasa, Gokul Dairy, Kolhapur, Coconut Research Centre, Fisheries College & Marine Biological Research Centre, Ratnagiri, Sula vineyard & Sahyadri Farms, Nashik, Yudgul Dairy, Kolhapur, Gadre Marine Industry, Ratnagiri, Satara Mega Food Park, Satara, etc.

Our students are placed in different multinational food industry such as ITC Ltd, Ranjangaon, Britannia Industry Pvt. Ltd, Shirur, Bauli India Bakes & Sweets Pvt. Ltd. Baramati, Paras Dairy, Ahemadnagar, Imsofer India Pvt. Ltd., Baramati, Gits Food Products Pvt.Ltd., Pune, Satara Food Mega Park, Satara, Venkys Indian Ltd. Kamshet, Pune, and KFC etc.