Explore your career in Food Processing Industry.

Food, a need for human to exist and survive, has now become an industry with a remarkable contribution in economy and job creation. Packaged or processed food industry has rapidly grown all over the world. Chips, noodles, kurkure, namkeen or snacks, biscuits & bakery, meat, dairy products, vegetables, jams, sauce, spices – there are a large number of packaged food available in market. Earlier these foods were limited to supermarkets and metro cities only but due to more expansion and growth of retail markets, packaged food industry has been able to make access in consumers in cities, towns and villages as well thus has witnessed remarkable growth. Here I would like to acquaint you with jobs and growth opportunities in food processing industry.

There was a controversy few days ago and it remain breaking news for many days, the maggi row. People and experts too anticipated this controversy to mar growth of rapidly growing food processing industry but the concern lived short and industry continued growing with it’s natural pace. According to the recent report of CII, the industry is ranked fifth in all industries in terms of production, revenue, exports, consumption and growth. Remarkably, it’s growth has surpassed growth of many industries and expected to be double in next ten years. The expansion of food industry is also assisting others sectors to grow like agriculture, dairy, fruits and vegetables etc. Lots of giants from India and overseas market like lays, reliance, McCains, Venky and others are expanding their product range and supply network to have an easy access to consumers.

In this growing market obviously all companies have created a tough competition for each other and every company would like to be in profits and maintain its market position. So, production, distribution, quality control and consumption by user are some tasks which are necessary for manufacturers to maintain and maximize profits and market position. Highly skilled and dedicated manpower is always required for the industry.

From procurement of raw material to process the food and its packaging, industry requires various technical, non technical people and bio technologists to process the food. Apart from this to market and distribute the products, a perfect distribution channel is required to meet market demand and minimize the waste and perishability. The sector will continue to attract talent to perform various roles and this growing industry will maintain its growth. In next one or two years, industry is expected to employ directly 2.8 million people and around 7.9 people indirectly.

So, all graduates, post graduates, engineers, medical professionals and other skilled or unskilled people, a huge growth opportunities are there in food processing industry and you have to explore a perfect opportunities for you according to your skills and capabilities. Just board and continue with you journey, one day you will be on your destination. Research market from you end, some details related to short term courses is available at – http://www.cftri.com/index.html