Assam: MoU signed to set up food process tech demo centre in Guwahati

Guwahati: Transnational Technologies Pty Ltd (TrasaTEC), an Indo-Australian food process technology start-up, signed an MoU with the North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) on December 22 for setting up a food process technology demonstration centre in Guwahati for providing unique solutions to the farmers of the Northeastern states.

TrasaTEC innovates food processing technology for dehydration, freezing and thermal/aseptic processing of fruits, vegetables, spices, nuts, grains/millets, medicinal & culinary herbs as well as meat. Alethia Food Labs is the Indian partner of TrasaTEC to provide this holistic end to end food process solution.  

Describing the technology, co-founders Pradeep and Ponmanikandan of TrasaTEC said, “India faces 15% to 20% post-harvest loss (PHL) due to unavailability of suitable and immediate food preservation systems and the majority of the loss originates in fruits and vegetable segment incurring huge loss to the farmers. This is where our proprietary technology comes in, where excess produce can be processed by dehydration. This helps the food products to last at least 9 months fit for people to consume with all its nutrients intact & without adding any preservatives.”