"Harnessing the Science of Fisheries for Food, Nutrition and Livelihood"
Fish Processing Incubation Facility (FPIF) is an off campus facility of College of Fisheries Engineering, Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University, Nagapattinam. Initially this facility was owned by Tamil Nadu Fisheries Development Corporation and handed over to TNJFU on 18.12.2013.Cold chain facility of FPIF has been serviced and inaugurated in the name of Fish Processing Incubation Facility under NADP funding support on 25.10.2018 with Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) registration (224171260000280). Major facilities such as Cold chain facility, comprising of one chill room (2-4 deg C) of 10 tonnes capacity, two blast freezer (minus 40 deg C) of 0.5 tonnes capacity and Cold room (minus 20 deg C) of 20 tonnes capacity, Extrusion processing facility comprising of Twin screw extruder, Flavour coater and Automatic nitrogen fill packing machine, Fish pickle packing machine, Product testing laboratory and solar drying facility
Professor & Head,
Fish Processing Incubation Facility,
College of Fisheries Engineering,
Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fisheries University,
Keechankuppam, Nagapattinam – 611001.
