Sunday 15 July 2012

How to make career in Food Technology

An upcoming sector

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When we sit alone at home and not in mood to cook ,instantly noodles click in our mind and we prepare it in 2 minutes how easy right, same way when we move in super market we see many things like baked chips, energy drinks,flavoured curds,pastas,sausages,mixed grain atta and many more.All these varieties are courtsey of Food Technology.Food technology is the science  that transforms cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables, raw meat and milk to various packaged food products.

Food Technology is a Upcoming Booming sector in India

As In India there is large cultivating area plus agro-climatic zones which is a production advantage for this country,India has potential to become the food factory of the world.And experts beleive that food processing sector is next revolution which takes place in India and food business will create 9 million jobs. The business has already grown since globalization thereby leading to increase in the requirement for food technologists there is always a demand for food technologist
In the BSc Food Technology, students are introduced to subjects like biology, maths, statistics, principles of food sciences, food processing and engineering, food microbiology, technology used in industrial plants, animal food and food safety among others.
Main work of food tecnologist is to make a mew product or new taste by adding some new ingredient in a product which makes its taste unique and intresting, in their studies student get knowledge of this by this they create their brand new product.Delhi Unvirsity strated a new subject in third year Project Management and Entrepreneurship which help students to understand about managing food and they can also start their own business.

Programmes:
BTech, MTech
(Food Technology/Food Engineering); BSc, MSc (Food Technology; MSc (Food and Nutrition)

Job profiles:
Production engineer, R&D, Quality control, Food Regulatory Officer, Food Microbiologist

Employment scenario
There are plenty of opportunities for food technologist ,we can say like this as well that job waiting to be grabbed. As compitition level is not intense because there is little awareness of this field amaong youngsters.Both national companies and MNCs including Coca Cola, Wipro, Bikanerwala, Asian Seasoning, Nestle and General Mills (Pillsbury) routinely conduct campus recruitments.
CFTRI claims that their MSc students receive a pay package of Rs. 4 lakh with most of them getting into equipment marketing, production, R&D and innovative product development. The highest pay packages in 2011 ranged between Rs. 8-9 lakh. However, if you have just completed your BSc and want to work, some positions available are assistant managers in quality control labs or as food analysts. The salary ranges from Rs. 15-20,000.

Recruiters: 
FMCG companies, small and medium-scale food processing industries, FSSAI, food testing labs

Skills and Traits
1. Should have scientific knowledge so that person can understant problem from grassroot.
2. Capabilty to handle difficult situtations
3. Should have leadership quality, manpower control
4. Good communication skills gives you edge over others.

Need for food technologists 
Food Tech Room
Food technologists can help India overcome post-harvest losses and bring about development in the commercialisation of the food processing sector. India being a major producer of cereal grains, fruit, vegetables and also number one in milk production, there won’t be any dearth of job openings for food technologists.

Best institutes:
1.UDCT, Mumbai;
2.College of Food Technology, Parbhani;
3. Amity University; CFTRI, Mysore;
4.Guru Jambheswar University of Science and Technology, Hisar; IIT Kharagpur
For students wants to Prepare for CFTRI Institutes
*CFTRI, a public sector institute, is one of the few colleges that offer an MSc (Food Technology) programme. But it has only  25 seats. Hence competition is stiff.


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