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The Food Technology Industry is becoming increasingly popular and offers a lot of career opportunities. The job prospects after doing B.Tech in Food Technology, are plenty. The work of food technologists is mainly in hotels, food industries, quality control, hospitals, packaging, industries, distilleries, soft drink factories and rice mills etc. Students completing a course in Food Technology get employed in a variety of roles within the food industry, like, determining market needs, developing new products to meet these needs, establishing quality control systems to maintain food safety and consistent quality.

In India, there is a lot of scope in this sector as there is a huge market for various products like pickles, papads, dairy products, bakery items, wines and beverages, frozen foods and other processed foods.

Students of Food Technology get a chance to work with major companies from the food processing sector like, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Coke, Venky's, Godrej, HLL, Amul, Pravin, Haldiram, Monginis, Chitale Bandhu, Cadbury, Nestle, Lijjat Group etc. Thus, from the local market to the global market, food technology students have good job opportunities.

They get placed in manufacturing industries, where they provide their skills in monitoring the storage, processing, hygiene, temperature-control and experimenting etc. Food technologists also work in research laboratories or on production lines to develop new products, test current ones, and control the overall food quality. This field can prove to be a very rewarding career.

Food Scientists and Technologists are employed in both the public and private sector, including:

Dairy, meat, seafood and horticultural processors

Brewers, winemakers and beverage manufacturers

Bakeries, confectioners and snack food manufacturers

Service industries:

Packaging, ingredient and equipment suppliers

Advertising agencies and research companies

Government Departments and Universities