Food Industry Business Incubation Centre was established as Food Industry Centre in Department Food Science & Technology by Punjab Agricultural University with technical guidance from the Ohio State University, USA and started functioning in June 2015.The primary objectives of Food Industry Business Incubation Centre are:-

• To provide incubation facilities to the food industry, young entrepreneurs and farmers.
• To develop linkages between PAU, farmer and food industry for the development of food processing industry in the region.
• To develop and upscale technologies for processing and value addition of agricultural produce.
• To conduct short courses and trainings for the development of entrepreneurship skills inrural youth, farm women, budding entrepreneurs, NGOs, Self Help Groups and to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Food Industry operations.

Food Industry Business Incubation Centre also conducts research as desired by various organizations and provide business incubation facilities at nominal charges. Centre covers entire range of food processing with special emphasis on fruits, vegetables and grain based products. Various growers have prepared their products in the Food Industry Business Incubation Centre for commercial purposes. Technologies developed and up scaled at Food Industry Business Incubation Centre under Department Food Science and Technology has been transferred to different stakeholders for commercialization.

Facilities available

• Minimal processing techniques
• Heat preservation techniques
• Cold Preservation
• Drying and dehydration
• Juices and beverages
• Canning
• Packaging
• Pasta processing
• Soy milk processing

Incubational facilities provided at Food Industry Business Incubational Center

1. Processing of tamarind pulp - Mr. Navdeep Singh and Mr. Gursharan Singh.
2. Preparation of processed amla products - amla beverage and amla candy - S. Virsa Singh, Tarn Taran
3. Processing of turmeric- Mr. Navdeep Singh and Mr. Gursharan Singh
4. Preparation of shelf stable sugarcane juice - Mr. Rajgopal Patil, (a sugarcane grower) from Karnataka.
5. Preparation of frozen peas - Mr.Navdeep Singh and Mr.Paramvir Singh
6. Preparation of different value added products from fruits i.e. mango squash, mango nectar, mango papaya nectar, jamun nectar, jamun squash, dates chutney and mango papaya jam- a rural youth and budding entrepreneur Mr. Rinku from village Badal.
7. Processing of Guava Pulp,guava squash and guava nectar. They have done bulk processing of Guava pulp for product preparation- Sandhya Self Help Group, Maili, Hoshiarpur.
8. Processing of ginger - Pinning Lifestyle, New Delhi.
9. Preparation of cereal products. A PABI women entrepreneur start up “delicious bites” delivered their first corporate order of 500 boxes of cookies- M/s DB Delicious Bites Pvt. Ltd., Ms. Harjot Kaur Gambhir, Model Town Ludhiana
10. Preparation Whole Wheat, Oats, Seeds n Bran Cookies- M/s Maple Foods Pvt. Ltd. Ms. Alpna Gupta Ludhiana
11. Processing and bottling of honey lemon drink - Mr. Jagjit Singh, B treat Pvt Ltd, Bathinda.
12. Bottles of sugarcane juice were processed and packed - Mr. Sunil Kumar, Upright Foods and Beverages Pvt Ltd, Bihar.