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Technology has become an essential tool for achieving competitiveness for the food industry in today’s business environment. Lack of technology leads to inefficiency, lower quality, and poor customer attraction and therefore lower return on capital. Technology is one of the major differentiator in business that would provide huge competitive advantage. Therefore, it is necessary to nurture and support an entrepreneur by way of technological advancement. It is technology that has been a prime mover in the spectacular industrialization of the developed countries like USA, Germany, and Japan etc. Even today it is technology that continues to spur industrial growth with increasing rapidity. But technology as such is not easy for entrepreneur to access and adopt.
A technologically vibrant, internationally competitive MSME sector need to be encouraged to emerge, to make a sustainable contribution to national income, employment and exports. As entrepreneur may not have the expertise and time to resolve all the technology related issues. A definite helping hand is required to support them. In the Indian context of farmers, processors, MSMEs and also retailers, judicious Business Facilitation is an extremely important intervention to ensure their survival as it plays an important role in determining their competitive advantage.
TNTPC intends to develop capacity of agencies to disseminate agricultural technologies through partnerships, to enhance the capacity of farmers and entrepreneurs to produce raw materials for agriculture-based industries and value-added products.
TNTDPC/CII is committed to bring their resources and expertise to enlighten institutional capacity building & knowledge dissemination to increase productivity through precision farming technologies; pre and post harvest technology interventions and innovation in supply chain management to ensure retention of the quality of the produce; and value addition of fruits and vegetables for maximizing the gains to the producers, processors and consumers. In this context, TNTDPC/CII is organizing workshop in the area of “Business Opportunities in Food Processing Industry” on 17 – 19 December, 2009 at MSME-Development Institute,Guindy Chennai, India. The workshop would update the progress of research activities and adoption of industries in the field of post-harvest, nutrition and processing technology of fruits and vegetables.
The objectives of the workshop are:
- To raise the awareness of the critical importance of technology foresight for improving the competitiveness of industry as well as to establish and strengthen regional capability of using technology foresight for designing policies and strategies that focus on innovation.
- To promote a new decision-making culture among managers and policy-makers in order to put quality and safety issues into the centre of the total food chain management.
- To identify future key technologies and new business models to promote the quality and safety requirements in food production.
- To build the capacity of SMEs through advisory services, trainings and new product development and promotion.
As part of this program, Agri-Business experts will take the entrepreneurs through the business processes along with a practical look at running of Agri-Businesses. The program will present current trends in this field so that the businesses would be able to produce and distribute permanent quality, safe and healthy food in compliance regulations. They will learn what to look for in terms of quality products, issues that can be detrimental to quality, etc. Training concentrates on developing a range of skills which are often lacking. These include the ability to innovate, product promotion, management of employees, accounting, time management and technical production skills.
The target groups of the workshop are the middle and top management of food businesses: manufacturers, traders, and distributors and of other subjects in the food chain.
Delegate Fee:
There is no delegate fee for the workshop and the participation is restricted to 40 delegates. We would accept the nominations on first-come-first served basis. The tentative programme schedule is enclosed for your kind reference and use.
We are cordially inviting you to attend / nominate your colleagues for this important workshop. Please confirm your participation/nominations through the attached Registration Form at the earliest.
Regards
G K Moinudeen
Head
Tamil Nadu Technology Development & Promotion Center
C/o Confederation of Indian Industry
98/1, Velacherry Main Road
Chennai - 600 032
Ph : 044 42 444 555 / 530 (D)
Fax : 044 42 444 510
Click here to Tentative Programme Schedule
Click here to Registration form
DAY1:
- Introduction about Mushroom Download
- Infrastructure Development & Cultivation Practices Download
- Value Addition in Mushroom Download
DAY2:
- Minimal Processing of Fruits & Vegetables Download
- Value Added Products in Fruits & Vegetables [Compatibility Mode] Download
- Processing Machinery and Equipments Download
DAY3:
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