Post- Harvest Technology

ALLA VENKATA SATYA HYNDAVI 

M.Sc. Post Harvest Technology, Assistant Professor.
Email Id : hyndavi05@gmail.com

WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • Underwent 4 months of intensive Rural Awareness Work Experience Programme in DEVARAGUNTA village of ELURU district of Andhra Pradesh. The learning process involved interacting with the farmers, studying the rural scenario, cropping pattern & the major constraints in the adoption of latest technology.
  • Hands on training in cultivation of crops. I got personal training in cultivation of crops like citrus, chilli, bhendi and brinjal and flower crop like crossandra.
  • Gained experience regarding the crop production, protection, marketing and extensional aspects during RAWEP.
  • Five months of Experiential Learning Programme (ELP) on Bioinputs: Bio Pesticides and Bio-fertilisers and Dehydration of Fruits and Vegetables in the final semester of degree programme.
  • Gained practical experience regarding value added products produced from different fruits and vegetables like jam, jelly, fruit bars, ketchup etc.
  • 1 year project work about shelf life studies on minimally processed fresh cut tender jackfruit. I have studied the effect of brine solutions, packaging material and dehydration techniques on tender jackfruit to increase their shel life.

TRANINGS

    • Participated in two days training programme on “value addition in Jackfruit” 
    •  Participated in one day workshop on “Development of soft skills for entrepreneurship among Agri Graduates.” 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Effect of drying techniques and packaging material on shelf life of tender jackfruit powder.
  • Active and Intelligent packaging for fruits and vegetables. Two day ‘National Conference on Advances in agriculture and environmental studies (NCAE).
  • Osmotic dehydration of fruits and vegetables. Two day ‘National Conference on Advances in agriculture and environmental studies (NCAE).

Dr. Bharathkumar A
P.hD. Assistant Professor of Horticulture, NET Qualified.
Email Id: : bharathkumara4@gmail.com 

Working Experience

  • Senior Project Associate in CSIR – Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore.
  • Assistant Professor July, 2022 – January, 2023. Department of Post Harvest Technology. J C Diwakar Reddy Horticultural College, Tadipatri.
  • Development and assessment of polyherbal formulation for anti-diabetic and beta-cell regeneration activity in diabetes induced rats.
  • Standardization of pre-treatments for quality improvement in raisins and dehydrated fig.
  • National Eligibility Test conducted by Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, New
    Delhi, on 29-Dec – 2018.
  • Best oral presentation award in the theme of Post Harvest Management and value addition organized by Department of Horticulture, National Conference on “Arid fruits: A way forward for sustainable production and nutritional security, 28th to 30th November-2019, University of
    Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka, India.

SKILLS

  • Physico-chemical analysis (moisture, water activity, textural properties, total soluble solids, titratable acidity, phenols, antioxidants, tannins, crude fiber, total ash, ascorbic acid and flavonoids).
  • Microbial analysis(Bacteria, yeast and mould).
  • Mass production of bio-control agent (Trichoderma harzianum).
  • Blood serum analysis (glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, very high-density protein, total protein, alkaline phosphatase and lipid peroxidase).

CONFERENCES

  • National Conference on “Arid fruits: A way forward for sustainable production and nutritional security.
  • Interactive PG Poster Seminar on Post Graduate Research.
  •  National Seminar on “Horticulture for sustainable Development, Nutritional and Livelihood Security.”
  • National Virtual Conference on “Post-Harvest Management: Concepts, Challenges and Prospects (PHM-2022)” organized by department of Academics and Human Resource Development. National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management- Thanjavur (NIFTEM-T).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Study on fruit preparation on quality of fig fruits (cv. Bellary) osmotic-dehydrated under solar tunnel dryer.
  • Effect of storage period on organoleptic evaluation of raisins under refrigerated condition. 
  • Effect of storage on water activity and microbial count of dehydrated fig (cv. Bellary) under ambient condition.
  • Influence of storage period on colour quality parameters of raisins.
  • Influence of pre-treatments on sensory properties of raisins.
  • Influence of pre-treatment on total soluble solids, titratable acidity and sugars of raisin.
  • “Standardization and microbial quality assessment of antidiabetic polyherbal formulations.” 
  • Grafting in brinjal (Solanum melongena L.): a sustainable way of increasing the yield.
  • Evaluation of physical and functional properties of weaning food blended with banana, sweet potato and drumstick leaves powder.
  • Formulation and acceptability of blended weaning food by incorporating banana, sweet potato and drumstick leaves powder.
  • “Identification of elite jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) genotypes for fruit characters, bulb characters and biochemical parameters in Doddaballapur and Tumkur districts of Karnataka, India (in Indian province of Karnataka).”