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National Mission on Himalayan Studies
Implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC)
Nodal and Serving hub with G.B. Pant "National Institute of Himalayan Environment"(NIHE)

Project Title:

Establishment of functional foods R&D Centre and dissemination of the developed technology for the livelihood, nutritional security and entrepreneurship of the farm women of Himachal Pradesh

1. Project Details
Sanction Date: 26-02-2018
Project Category MG
Batch Year 2017-2018
Project Duration 3 Years + 9 Months Extension
BTA : Livelihood Options and Employment Generation
Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: Himachal Pradesh
Organization/ Implementation Agency:

Department of Food Science & Technology

Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Solan, Himachal Pradesh

Project Partners: S.No. Name
1.
Department of Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh
2.
Department of Horticulture, Himachal Pradesh
Lead Proponent:

Dr. K.D. Sharma

Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

Project Brief Description: Increased interest in functional foods has arisen from numerous epidemiological studies which suggest that certain phytochemicals can prevent diseases. Functional foods are the foods or the food components that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition. Hippocrates proclaimed over 2500 years ago, Let food be the medicine and medicine be the food. Functional food may improve health in general, reduce impact of illness, delay onset of disease, treat disease in progress or even cure disease e.g. calcium fortified juices for maintaining bone health, omega-3 fat substituted food products for protecting against certain forms of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Even broccoli, blueberry, cranberry, soybean, green tea, oatmeal and flax seeds might be considered as functional foods as they contain dietary components that may reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases. Functional foods availability in Indian markets is virtually negligible whereas the demand for such foods has considerably increased among the affluent section of the society. The department of Food Science & Technology has a mandate to develop and transfer food processing technologies to the food industry, self-help groups and farmers besides, imparting institutional trainings to the extension agencies and education to under-graduate and post-graduate students. The main emphasis of the project is on creation of an infrastructure for research and training on functional foods processing to the farmers/self-help groups for inculcating entrepreneurship particularly in the women of the remote locations of Himachal Pradesh (one processing unit each in Kinnaur, Chamba, Solan and Shimla district) of Himachal Pradesh. Excellent quality of agri-horti produce are extensively grown in tribal and other remote locations of the state however, due to the lack of local markets and transportation difficulties, huge quantity of the production either goes waste or small quantities preserved by drying in open sun by the growers are unhygienic, discoloured and poor in taste. Besides, marketable surplus and culled fruits not suitable for drying due to low sugar and high acid content and get spoiled and hence, growers do not get good returns for their produce. Therefore, it is need to equip the youth/ self-help groups/growers with the technical know-how to convert their agri-horti produce into processed products either into complete functional food product or semi-finished product and further encourage them to sell their products to large scale factories in urban locations manufacturing food products. The successful implementation of this project will lead to establishment of more factories in private/ co-operative sector in remote locations in Himachal Pradesh and the adjoining areas of the state of J&K and Uttarakhand in due course of time, which ultimately will raise the income of the farmers, generate employment for the rural youth and prevent the post-harvest spoilage which is 15-40% depending upon the type of agri-horti commodity.
Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders:

Tribal people of the districts of Lahaul & Spiti, Kinnaur and Pangi area of Chamba district.

People from the hilly districts of Chamba and Shimla

People from the adjoining states of J&K (Bordering Chamba district) and Uttarakhand (Bordering Shimla district)

Food industry, NGOs, educational institutions including industrial training institutes and self-help groups of the north-western region of the country

Undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university having assess to the research facilities being developed under the project

Health department of the Himachal Pradesh

Activity Chart (For 3 Years): Click Here


2. Financial Details
Total Grants (in Rs.) Rs.1,48,85,680/- (Rupees One Crore Forty Eight Lakh Eighty Five Thousand Six Hundred Eighty only)
1st Installment (in Rs.) : Rs. 66,68,000/- (Rupees Sixty Six Lakh Sixty Eight Thousand only)
2nd Installment (in Rs.) : Rs. 40,32,000/- (Rupees Forty Lakh thirty-Two Thousand only)
3rd Installment (in Rs.) : Rs. 33,42,177/- (Rupees Thirty Three Lakh Forty Two Thousand One Hundred And Seventy Seven Only)


3. Project Objectives, Deliverables and Monitoring Indicators
Project Objectives Quantifiable Deliverables Monitoring Indicators
Model functional foods processing center with reasonable investment for prospective entrepreneurship and skill development; Low cost, simple and easily adoptable technology resulting in the remunerative price to the farm women (04 models in tribal belt); No. of New Database/ Datasets generated on the identified dynamics (No.);
Training and demonstration center(s) for various stakeholders; Organization of 40 trainings of 4 days duration at 4 selected Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and off KVK in selected districts of the Himachal Pradesh and J&K; Periodic submission on region-specific best practices/ demonstrative models (No.);
Enhancement in living standard and economic status of the farmers through nutritional security and livelihood; Total 20-25 BPL women will be benefited from each training camp; No. of Capacity Building Programmes/ Trainings conducted/ organized;
Benefit to large scale food manufacturers in urban settings from the availability of quality semi-finished functional ingredients at a reasonable price. No. of Stakeholders benefitted (No. of Rural Youth, No. of Women, and Total No. of Beneficiaries) with update on Income generation (Rs./ person);
  Other Publications and Knowledge Products (Nos.)..
S.No. Name (Sanctioned Staff) Qualification Designation Salary
1. Dr. Vinay Chandel Ph.D Food Technology Research Associate 47000+HRA
2. Ms. Anu Sharma M. Sc Food Science & Technology Junior Research Fellow 31000+ HRA
3. Ms. Astha Sharma M. Sc Food Science & Technology Junior Research Fellow 31000+HRA
4. Ms. Manorama 10+2 Field Assistant 11000
5. Mr. Manoj Kumar 10+2 Field Assistant 11000
6. Mr. Jiwan Singh 10+2 Field Assistant 11000
S.No. Name of Equipment (Sanctioned Equipment) Use of Equipment Cost (in INR)
1. Weighing Balance Biogen BGS-LB (small) (5 No.) Biogen 29,000
2. Spectrophoto meter (1 No.) 2,27,510
3. Prestige Wet Grinder (5 No.) Prestige 47,500
4. Double distillation unit AllGlass 2.5 L with Vacuum pump (1 No.) DLAB 2,48,500
5. Vacuum Packaging Machine (1 No.) 98,495
6. Fruit Grating Machine (4 No.) Sandeep instruments 1,26,000
7. Pulper (4 No.) Packaging Solution 1,32,160
8. Hydraulic juice press (4 No.) Sandeep instruments 4,34,560
9. Hand Refractromet er (5 No.) 36,960
10. Mechanical Dehydrator (4 No.) Sandeep instruments 2,59,840
11. HPLC Tray drive assembly (01 No.) Waters India Limited 1,25,462
12. Ultrapure water purification system (01 No.) Sartorious 4,20,000