Agriculture and Food Technology

by Z A Fakunle

ISBN: 9789386595256
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 9995.00
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Author Profile

Dr. Z. A. Fakunle served as professor of Food Science and Nutrition at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Currently, Dr. Fakunle Nutritional Consultant. Dr. Fakunle has to his credit about 100 research journals, 12 invited papers in National and International conferences, 24 book chapters and numbers of training manuals, reports and review.

About The Book

Agriculture and Food Technology is concerned with the process of getting food from the farm to the supermarket. Agriculture and Food Technology including pure research in the various sciences associated with food; and practical experiments designed to improve technical processes. Areas and subareas of interest include raw material composition to consumer acceptance, from physical properties to food engineering practices, and from quality assurance and safety to storage, distribution, marketing and use, proximate analysis, novel foods, food quality assurance and food safety, raw material composition of food, food storage and distribution, consumer acceptance of foodstuffs, physical properties of food, food engineering practices, food marketing, food manufacturing techniques and more. Agriculture and Food Technology professionals enter careers as food scientists, food technologists, food safety technicians, food product developers, food safety analysts and food systems managers. Food technologists typically work in the food and pharmaceutical industries, but they may also find employment with manufacturing companies, research institutes and the government. This book would be highly useful for graduate students, teachers and researchers of agriculture and food technology.

Table of Contents

Preface vii 1. Agriculture Environment, Rural Sociology and Food System 1 2. The Nature of Food Hazards 42 3. Effective Food Safety System 53 4. War and the World’s Food Economy, Agriculture, and the Rural Community 71 5. Food Research Policy 99 6. Modern Agri-Food System 112 7. Dairy Technology 146 8. Meat Technology 271 Bibliography Index 273