National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), the apex institution for food processing industry will start its academic session from this year. The institution, established to cater the needs of different stakeholder like entrepreneurs, industry, exporters, policy makers and others, is going to offer various courses – short term diploma to Ph.D. level courses.

These include courses in management, packaging, biotechnology, nutrition, food standard and safety, dairy products, beverages, animal protein and several others. The NIFTEM will also be used as national referral laboratory for food standard and safety.