Training, hand-holding for entrepreneurs
(WorldNews India)

People venturing into a food product business often encounter roadblocks. Getting the recipe right and guaranteeing longer shelf-life for the products are some of them. Though a simple web search may throw up numerous solutions to such problems, there´s nothing like getting it straight from the horse´s mouth. This is what the food processing business incubator at the Post Harvest Technology Centre of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has been doing for almost 13 years. The centre was established in 2004 with the motive to reduce post-harvest losses by creating value added products from farm produce. A year later, it started offering training programmes. `Generally, during glut...