• To develop location and crop/commodity specific post-harvest technologies for minimization of quantitative and qualitative losses to produce of agriculture and allied sectors.
• To adapt and develop improved post-harvest processes and equipment for value addition to food grains and other produce at rural threshold for higher income and generation of rural employment.
• To develop processes and equipment for economic utilization on bio-wastes and by-products.
• To conduct operational research and multi-location trials on developed technologies to identify technical, financial, managerial and social constraints for better market acceptability to technologies.
• To establish need based Agro-Processing Centres (APCs) to assure better economic returns to the farmers from their marketable surpluses in the production catchments.
• To assess, refine and transfer proven technologies.