Field Visit - NIFPHAT - Cochin
Field Visit - NIFPHAT - Cochin
Field Visit - NIFPHAT - Cochin
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Overview Page 3
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1. Overview
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2. Visit to the processing complex
Fish Processing Complex with most modern fish processing & freezing plant of
5200 Sq.m., a canning plant, drying plant, tunnel freezer, plate freezers, chill
rooms, flake ice plant and 3 cold storages.
NIFPHATT envisages the best post harvest fish utilization and consumption with the
least post harvest losses and delivery of the best quality fish and fish products.
Post harvest technology up gradation through adaptive research to suit the ever
increasing and fast changing consumer needs by developing new processes,
products and packaging on pilot scale. Dissemination of the upgraded technology is
achieved through consultancy, training, popularization of products and consumer
response surveys.
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Fresh catch of fish to be graded and sorted
Women from local communities involved in the sorting and grading of fish
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Quality Assurance Laboratory with facilities for microbiological and biochemical
quality assessment of frozen, dried, canned and value added products
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