Mandate – phet

To develop sector, location and crop specific post-harvest value chains for minimization of quantitative and qualitative losses to produce of agriculture and allied sectors.
To develop location specific advanced on-farm and off-farm storage structures for agricultural commodities.
To develop processes and equipment for economic utilization of region-specific agricultural by-products.
To conduct operational research and multi-location trials on developed technologies to ensure market acceptability to technologies.
To establish need based Agro-Processing Centres (APCs) and related technologies to improve economic opportunities of the farmers in the production catchments.