College of Food Technology, VNMKV, Parbhani offers UG programme B. Tech (Food Technology) which fulfils the ICAR guidelines and other recommendations. The College offering degree programmes as per recommendations of Deans Committees/VCI/BSMA are eligible for ICAR accreditation.
The course curricular and syllabus of UG programme of B. Tech (Food Technology) is restructured by the Vth Deans Committee of ICAR, New Delhi and to be implemented from the year 2017-18. This degree programme is designed for a period of four years after 12th Science with the credit load of 185 (92+93) to enable the students to acquire need based and refined knowledge and skills in the field of Food Technology. The credit load of 185 proposed to equate the B. Tech. (Food Technology) degree programme.
The College of Agricultural Technology was sanctioned by the Government of Maharashtra in 1975 and the full fledge College of Agricultural Technology was established in May 1976 as one of the constituent colleges of this University to fulfil the academic and practical aspirations of the people of Maharashtra. It is one of the unique and premier institutions perhaps, particularly concern in technology, research and extension in important and useful field of Food Science and Technology and also offering B. Tech (Food Science) degree programme of four years duration including In-plant Training of one semester in food and allied industries, first of its kind in the country.
College of Food Technology, VNMKV, Parbhani has full-fledged buildings and sufficient classrooms and functional laboratories are available to meet the course curricula requirement. The summary of classrooms and laboratories available at college of Food Technology, VNMKV, Parbhani is given below:
Classrooms are available with enough sitting capacity and enough light and ventilation, electrical arrangements and lecture boards .
Sr. No. | Smart Classrooms | Location | Capacity | Length (ft) | Breadth(ft) | Area (Sq. ft) |
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1 | Class room – 2 | FMS | 64 | 35 | 23 | 552 |
2 | Class room – 3 | FE | 32 | 24 | 24 | 576 |
3 | Class room – 4 | FE | 32 | 24 | 26 | 624 |
Other classrooms are converted to smart classrooms by incorporation of LCD Projector, Interactive Boards, K-Yan system, computer and internet facilities.
College of food technology is equipped with enough laboratories and pilot plant for carrying out experimental work and skill development under various departments, summarized as follows:
Food Process Technology is a major department of Food Technology equipment with sufficient laboratories for carrying out experiments pertaining to fruits and vegetables preservation and processing, cereal processing, legumes processing, animal product technology and number of experiments pertaining to preservation and quality evaluation of different food products.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | Laboratory No. 1 | 6.45 | 4.8 | 31 |
2 | Laboratory No. 2 (Quality Control Laboratory) | 9.8 | 6.5 | 64 |
3 | Laboratory No. 3 | 9.85 | 6.5 | 64 |
4 | Laboratory No. 4 | 9.85 | 4.8 | 48 |
5 | Laboratory No. 5 (Fruit and Vegetable Laboratory) | 6.5 | 4.9 | 32 |
6 | Laboratory No. 6 | 9.8 | 6.5 | 64 |
7 | Laboratory No. 7 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 32 |
8 | Laboratory No. 8 | 9.8 | 6.5 | 64 |
9 | Instrumentation Room | 3.4 | 3.3 | 11 |
Department of Food Engineering fulfils the aspiration for inculcating engineering skills amongst the students. It is well equipped with different equipments, models and laboratories.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | Food Engineering Laboratory No. 1 | 9 | 7.1 | 64 |
2 | Food Engineering Laboratory No. 2 | 9 | 7.1 | 64 |
3 | Food Engineering Laboratory No. 3 | 9 | 7.1 | 64 |
College of Food Technology, Parbhani graduate is renowned for their research and laboratory skills due to Department of Food Chemistry and Nutrition. The department is fully operative and fulfilled with enough laboratories, equipments and expert faculty to carry out research and practical work.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | Laboratory No. 1(Analytical Laboratory) | 14.40 | 10.70 | 154 |
2 | UG –1 Laboratory | 10.75 | 7.10 | 76 |
3 | UG –2 Laboratory | 10.75 | 7.10 | 76 |
4 | Instrumentation Room | 10.75 | 7.22 | 76 |
5 | Sophisticated Instrument Laboratory | 7.10 | 3.55 | 25 |
Department of Food Microbiology and Safety is equipped with sufficient equipments and laboratories for learning, understanding and research pertaining to food safety and microbiology.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | UG Laboratory- 2 | 7.10 | 7.00 | 50 |
2 | Food Safety Laboratory | 7.50 | 7.10 | 53 |
3 | UG Laboratory | 8.96 | 7.05 | 63 |
4 | Inoculation Chamber | 8.85 | 7.05 | 63 |
Department of Food Business Management is equipped with different charts, boards, computer facilities, laboratories and software facilities for enhancing the interpersonal, communication and business skills amongst the students.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | Laboratory- 2 | 9.85 | 6.50 | 64 |
2 | Laboratory- 3 | 9.80 | 6.50 | 64 |
3 | Laboratory- 4 | 6.45 | 4.80 | 31 |
4 | Laboratory- 7 | 6.50 | 4.90 | 32 |
Department of Food Plant Operations is established and READY programme to inculcate the practical skills amongst the student and the institute has enough infrastructure, pilot plant, pilot bakery unit and ELP (Fruits and vegetable processing) Unit for the purpose.
Sr. No. | Name of the Processing Unit/Laboratory | Length (ft) | Breadth (ft) | Area (sq.ft) |
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1 | ELP (Fruits and Vegetable Processing) unit | 85 | 50 | 4,250 |
2 | Pilot Plant | 120 | 98 | 11,760 |
3 | Pilot Bakery Unit | 50 | 63 | 3,150 |
4 | Rice Mill and Spice Processing Unit | 40 | 44 | 1,760 |
Beside different laboratories under the departments, College of Food Technology is also equipment with State-of-Art Laboratory (Niche Area Laboratory) which is equipped with high end sophisticated equipments.
Sr. No. | Name of the Laboratory | Length (m) | Breadth (m) | Area (sq.m) |
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1 | Niche Area Laboratory | 20 | 6.4 | 128 |
Sr. No. | Name of equipment | Quantity |
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1 | Bernoulli’s Theorem Apparatus | 01 |
2 | BOD Incubator | 01 |
3 | Bomb Calorimeter | 01 |
4 | Cryogenic Centrifuge Unit | 01 |
5 | Cryogenic Mixer Mill | 01 |
6 | Digital Colony Counter | 02 |
7 | Digital Turbidity Meter | 01 |
8 | Digital Water Bath | 04 |
9 | Freeze Drier | 01 |
10 | HPLC High-Performance Liquid Chromatography | 01 |
11 | Infra-Red Digestion Unit | 01 |
12 | Infra-Red Moisture Meter | 01 |
13 | Infra-Red Steam Distillation Unit | 01 |
14 | Lab Scale Fermenter | 01 |
15 | Metacentric Height Apparatus | 01 |
16 | Micro-Kjeldahl Steam Distillation Unit | 02 |
17 | Modified Atmospheric Chamber | 05 |
18 | Orbital Shaking Incubator | 01 |
19 | Phase Contrast Fluorescent Microscope | 02 |
20 | Refrigerated Centrifuge | 01 |
21 | Reynolds No. Apparatus | 01 |
22 | Spray Drier | 01 |
23 | Texturometer (TPA) | 01 |
24 | Ultrasonic Auto mixer | 01 |
25 | UVS Double Beam Spectrophotometer | 01 |
26 | UVS Single Beam Spectrophotometer | 02 |
27 | Vacuum Concentrator | 01 |
Sr. No. | Year | Batch of students in theory class | Batch of students in practical class | ||||
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Batch | No. of students | Batch | No. of students | ||||
1 | 2013-14 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
2 | 2014-15 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
3 | 2015-16 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
4 | 2016-17 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
5 | 2017-18 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
6 | 2018-19 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
7 | 2019-20 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
8 | 2020-21 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
9 | 2021-22 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 |
Sr. No. | Name of equipment | Quantity |
---|---|---|
1 | Bernoulli’s Theorem Apparatus | 01 |
2 | BOD Incubator | 01 |
3 | Bomb Calorimeter | 01 |
4 | Cryogenic Centrifuge Unit | 01 |
5 | Cryogenic Mixer Mill | 01 |
6 | Digital Colony Counter | 02 |
7 | Digital Turbidity Meter | 01 |
8 | Digital Water Bath | 04 |
9 | Freeze Drier | 01 |
10 | HPLC High-Performance Liquid Chromatography | 01 |
11 | Infra-Red Digestion Unit | 01 |
12 | Infra-Red Moisture Meter | 01 |
13 | Infra-Red Steam Distillation Unit | 01 |
14 | Lab Scale Fermenter | 01 |
15 | Metacentric Height Apparatus | 01 |
16 | Micro-Kjeldahl Steam Distillation Unit | 02 |
17 | Modified Atmospheric Chamber | 05 |
18 | Orbital Shaking Incubator | 01 |
19 | Phase Contrast Fluorescent Microscope | 02 |
20 | Refrigerated Centrifuge | 01 |
21 | Reynolds No. Apparatus | 01 |
22 | Spray Drier | 01 |
23 | Texturometer (TPA) | 01 |
24 | Ultrasonic Auto mixer | 01 |
25 | UVS Double Beam Spectrophotometer | 01 |
26 | UVS Single Beam Spectrophotometer | 02 |
27 | Vacuum Concentrator | 01 |
Sr. No. | Year | Batch of students in theory class | Batch of students in practical class | ||||
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Batch | No. of students | Batch | No. of students | ||||
1 | 2013-14 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
2 | 2014-15 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
3 | 2015-16 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
4 | 2016-17 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
5 | 2017-18 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
6 | 2018-19 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
7 | 2019-20 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
8 | 2020-21 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 | ||
9 | 2021-22 | 01 | 64 | 02 | 32 |