Diploma in Fish Products Technology

The fisheries sector makes an important contribution to the national economy of a developing country like India. Since fresh fish can get spoiled very quickly the development of technology for post-harvest preservation and methodology to convert fish to value added products have also become popular in recent times.This calls for capacity building in the fisheries sector especially at the supervisory / managerial levels. This diploma course will help to develop and strengthen human resources who have the basic knowledge and technical proficiency in post harvest management, processing, value addition, quality control and marketing of fish and fishery products. The human resource developed will also be able to start their own entrepreneurship and thus become partners in the overall development of the country.
This programme aims to develop competent human resource in the field of post harvest management of Fish and production of value added products from them.

Objectives:

The main objective of the programme is to:

-develop and strengthen human resource by infusing and imparting knowledge and skill in Value Added Fish Products;
-training of personnel for self-employment and creating awareness and competency in the fish processing as well as fish products preparation; and
-impart basic knowledge and technical proficiency in Post-Harvest Management, primary processing of fish, value addition, quality control and marketing

Programme Structure:

-Introduction to Fish, Processing, Packaging and Value Addition
-Mince and Mince based Products
-Coated Products
-Fish by-products and Waste Utilization
-Quality Assurance
-Marketing and Entrepreneurship Development
-Training and Field Visits