NRDC TO PROVIDE COST-EFFECTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES TO FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
The National Research
Development Corporation (NRDC) is to make available cost-effective
technologies to small and medium scale entrepreneurs engaged in
food processing. For this, the NRDC will tap all the research
activities funded by the Ministry of Food Processing Industry.
The research by institutions under this Ministry has lead to the
development of a number of technologies but as it lacked in marketing
techniques they could not be put to productive use. Hence it has
signed an MoU with the NRDC of the Ministry of Science and Technology
for commercialising the same.
Apart from marketing
these technologies the NRDC will also help commercialise the processes
and products developed by Food Processing Research Institutions.
This will benefit all those entrepreneurs intending to start new
food processing units. The NRDC will also suggest ways and means
of improving them and making them efficient and cost-effective.
The NRDC which has
expertise in IPR, will also help in securing patents for their
products and processes. The partnership between the NRDC and the
Ministry of Food Processing is expected to pave the way in creating
a wide network of small scale units in this sector.
The NRDC, a profit
earning public sector enterprise is fully engaged in transfer
of technology from R&D laboratories to industry. It has also
signed a number of agreements with several foreign countries for
tech-transfer and commercialisation. 27 new processes were assigned
to the corporation for commercialisation last year.
