Department of Food Science & Technology

The Department of Food Science and Technology was established in June 2007 in the university as self supporting department. Its primary objective was to produce competent food scientists and technologists who can take leading roles in improving the socio-economic status of regional people. The department is also intended to provide technical support to farmers and entrepreneurs to establish small scale industries. Food Science and Technology is a multidisciplinary course which has subjects on processing, preservation, chemistry, quality, safety & marketing aspects of food and food products. The department has framed the curriculum in such a manner that by the time the student completes this degree program, the entrepreneur skill is already developed and they are fit to work in research, teaching and industry.

Research Areas :
Research is one of the significant activities of department and followings are the thrust areas:
Processing and Preservation of fruits, vegetables, cereals & legumes.
Applications of enzymes.
Fermented food and beverages.
Biotransformation of food toxicants.
Pharmacological study of food nutrients.

Other Departments at Shivaji University, Kolhapur

• Department of Adult & Continuing Education & Extension Work
• Department of Adult and Continuing Education
• Department of Agrochemicals & Pest Management
• Department of Bio-Chemistry
• Department of Bio-Technology
• Department of Botany
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Commerce & Management
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Economics
• Department of Education
• Department of Electronics
• Department of English
• Department of Environmental Science
• Department of Food Science & Technology
• Department of Foreign Language
• Department of Geography
• Department of Hindi
• Department of History
• Department of Industrial Chemistry
• Department of Journalism & Communication
• Department of Law
• Department of Library & Information Science
• Department of Marathi
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Micro-Biology
• Department of Music & Dramatics
• Department of Physics
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Sociology
• Department of Statistics
• Department of Zoology