Entrepreneurs of food products learn about export opportunities provided through TNAPEx at TNAU

Entrepreneurs of nutrient products were oriented connected the end-to-end assistance for tapping export opportunities provided done Tamil Nadu Food Processing and Agri Export Promotion Corporation (TNAPEx) astatine the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University recently.

A. Keerthivasan, Team Leader (Project Manager), Regional Hub and Export Enablement Center, TNAPEx, Tiruchi, told entrepreneurs of startups and MSMEs that the enactment encompassed caller merchandise development, manufacturing support, recognition of suitable accumulation facilities, merchandise registration, licensing, regulatory compliance, import and export procedures, marketplace linkages, buyer-seller meets, branding and export promotion activities. Entrepreneurs, helium said, could utilise the ecosystem to accelerate innovation, standard their businesses, and entree caller home and planetary markets.

The predisposition constituted a portion of ‘Connect and Grow – Food Business Meet’ organised by the TNAU’s Centre of Excellence successful Biotechnology (COXBIT), to fortify collaboration among nutrient processing MSMEs, researchers and manufacture stakeholders.

The COXBIT, arsenic the Technical Partner nether TNAPEx, provides method and fiscal enactment to MSMEs and startups done merchandise development, testing, validation, regulatory guidance and commercialisation, thereby enhancing the competitiveness and sustainable maturation of the nutrient processing sector, COXBIT Director N. Senthil said.

Participants were besides told astir the value of the Food Quality Testing Laboratory, attached to Centre for Post-Harvest Technology successful the assemblage that had NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) accreditation till 2029, and recognised by APEDA (Agricultural Processed Food Products Export Development Authority).

The participants learnt the process of chemic and biologic investigating of nutrient and cultivation products specified arsenic cereals, pulses, millets, edible oils, bakery products, honey, spices, instant mixes, ready-to-eat foods, and different processed products astatine the laboratory equipped with precocious analytical instruments.