Faculty of Food Technology
Planned — processing, preservation, quality and safety for the produce the province already grows.
The value leaves the province in a sack.
Madhesh grows grain, vegetables, fruit, milk and fish, and sells most of it raw. What is lost between the field and the buyer is the second problem; the first is that almost none of the value added after the harvest is added here. Processing, grading, packaging and storage are where a crop stops being a commodity.
A Faculty of Food Technology would cover food chemistry and microbiology, processing and preservation of cereals, pulses, fruit, vegetables, dairy and fish, packaging and storage, food quality and safety standards, and the small-scale enterprise development that would let a cooperative process its own produce.
The faculty is not yet constituted and no programme is enrolling. Post-harvest handling is taught meanwhile within horticulture and covered by the extension programme. This page will carry the faculty's own text once it is established.