Welcome to College of Food Technology Ashti
The Ashti taluka of Beed district was one of the educationally and economically backward taluka of Maharashtra. The demand of the education and particularly higher education was a long waiting of community. The facility of the higher education was out of their reach like Ahmednagar, Beed, Aurangabad, Pune, Latur and other district places. The common and poor students could not get it. Founder of institute Hon’ble Bhimraoji Dhonde a politician visualized this draw back. Maximum number of community is consisted of peasants and the area is dry so sugar cane cutting is the basic profession of local community.
Hon’ble president awakened few personalities from the area and founded Shetkari Shikhsan Prasarak Mandal at Ashti district Beed registered under the Mumbai public trust Act 1860 (Act XXI of 1861) in 1982 through registration number MAH 3/8 Feb. 6, 1982.
The institute was established with prime object to cater the needs of economically backward community.
The Anand Charitable Sanstha, Ashti Established in the year 1993, a small sapling planted started with only one institute, has now spread its wings with 32 different institutes. The credit goes to all stakeholders, staff and my colleagues in the board of directors and I am proud to say that the ACS’S has become the brand name in the field of technical as well as non-technical education.
The courses like Medical, Agriculture, Engineering, Polytechnic, Pharmacy, traditional branches like Arts, Science & Commerce, Education and Nursing studies are offered and being chosen by high ranking students. Many of our past students are holding prestigious positions in the reputed organizations within the country and abroad.
The Anand Charitable Sanstha is known for the moral values, ethics and contributing a lot for the overall upliftment of the society. I, being the President welcome you and appeal you to be the member of Anand Charitable Sanstha family.
College of Food Technology-
Despite of rural area having undeveloped background of Anand Charitable Sanstha, Ashti has adopted dynamic, high quality, creative and communicative approach in education as well as research and development. Keeping abreast with modern developments the institution is constantly restructuring itself and renovating physical infrastructure as well as research and educational facilities. As part of which ACS’S started College of Food Technology in the year 2015, with affiliation to Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (Maharashtra) (Govt. Resolution No. Krishi Vi-2190/CR-203/20A Dated 01.07.200, Uni. Sanction No. AXR-08 Dated 15.07.2015). The college is continuously working to provide excellent facilities in terms of education and extension activities to maintain high quality of education.
Food Technology is a science branch that deals with the techniques involved in production, processing, preservation, packaging, labeling, quality management, and distribution of food products. The field also involves techniques and processes that are used to transform raw materials into food. Extensive research goes behind making food items edible as well as nutritious. Food Science and Technology is vital and multi-disciplinary branch, which concerns with physiochemical, biochemical, microbiological and nutritional interactions of the micro, semi-micro and macro molecules of food ingredients either within or added externally which monitor the overall quality altitudes. Moreover, it also concentrates and relates to the formulation, product development, preservation, storage distribution, transportation, marketing, quality control, management and utilization of finished food stuffs.
As deep as we go into the dimensions of food technology, we require professionals in this field. And, this has led to the emergence of food technology courses. There are a plethora of opportunities for students who wish to pursue a course in food technology. Graduates or postgraduates in the course can seek jobs in different domains such as restaurants, catering establishments, hospitals, food processing companies, etc.
Thus, in order to achieve the consumer’s need and foreign exchange, the country has to evolve the appropriate and innovative technology for processing, packing, transport, storage etc. The responsibilities of teaching, research and extension have been shared and distributed among the Five departments as under.
1) Food Technology (FT)
2) Food Quality Assurance (FQA)
3) Food Engineering (FE)
4) Food Business Management (FBM)
5) Food Plant Operation (FPO)
Our Vision
To create trained, and skilled human resources well versed in engineering aspects of food processing to cater the needs of the rapidly growing food processing sector.
Our Mission
To establish itself as the leader in human resource development for supporting the food processing sector. To provide knowledge and skills for better preservation, processing and value addition to agro-products, with the aim of supporting the producers. To promote research and development for product and process and assurance of high level of hygiene and safety of processed food. To promote food safety laws and regulations for supporting a competitive, modern and safe food market for the consumers.