Innovations in food processing

Food processing is a sunrise sector in India and essential to reduce the losses and increase the profitability of farmers. Vast literature is being generated in food processing area based on different studies conducted related to their sorting and grading, storage, packaging and preservation, value addition. This information is compiled in the form of books and bulletins after a certain gap of time. The up to date and concise information is generally given by the scientists in the meetings and conferences through power point presentations. The power point is very effective to convey large information to the people much more effectively compared to the text written in the books. These presentations are either lost in the conferences or in the laptops of the presenters. The power point can combine text as well as pictures very effectively so one slide can tell one chapter of a story and sometimes 2-3 slides can cover whole history. Hence attempt has been made in this publication to compile the presentations of Dr. R. T. Patil, Former Director, Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana which were given as lectures and some specially prepared for this publication. This is a first attempt in publishing where the content is narrated through the power point slides in the form of a book. We hope that this publication will be effective in taking the message of post harvest management and value addition similar to story telling through childrens book. The book will be useful for scientists, academicians, students, policy makers and especially to the extension workers for effective dissemination of this information to end users