Home Science
Home Science integrates the application of various science and Humanities to improve human environment, family nutrition, management of resources and child development.
Major Responsibilities of the Home Scientists
- Addressing problems of under – employment, unemployment, poverty and malnutrition in the rural and urban areas.
- Promoting value addition to agricultural products and providing strong market support for disposal of agricultural produce
- Developing home scale and village level post harvest technologies for minimizing post harvest losses.
- Develop modern preservation techniques for preserving the surplus foods
- Developing and popularizing suitable agro textiles for use in agriculture
- Developing and utilizing solar lighting and solar drying equipment which may be of use in the agricultural sector
- Develop work simplification techniques and small equipment for farmer and farmwomen
- Designing and developing simple tools, implements and other safety measures needed during agricultural operations
- Effective production of biogas for farm and home operations
- Promote kitchen gardening, mushroom production and bee keeping
- Bringing about consumer awareness
Training Thematic Areas
- Household food security by kitchen gardening and nutrition
- Design and development of low/minimum cost diet
- Designating and development for high nutrient efficiency diet
- Minimization of nutrient loss in processing
- Processing and Cooking
- Gender mainstreaming through SHGs
- Storage loss minimization techniques
- Value Addition
- Women empowerment
- Location specific drudgery reduction and mitigation technologies
- Rural crafts
- Women and Child Care
2019-2020 Training Programme
- Value Addition in Mango
- Development of Value Added product (Amchur powder) from unripe Mango
- Gur Coconut and Neera Tapping Techniques
- Drudgery Reduction Technology using Bhendi Ring Cutter
- Development of Value added products from locally available fruits and vegetable using solar dryer
- Banana Fiber Extraction and its value addition
- Extraction of Natural Dye from Marigold flower
- Spirulina Production and Value Addition
- Bee Keepers Beginners Training
- Food Processing and Preservation Techniques
- Value added products from Grapes
- Value Addition in Tomato
- Cashew Apple utilization for unemployed women
- Extraction of Natural Dye from Marigold Flower
- Value Addition in Ragi
- Shelf life enhancement in Jasmine
- Drudgery Reducing Demonstration of Vegetable Seedling Transplanter
- Nutritional Terrace Garden
- Value added products from Moringa leafs
- Household techniques for detection of adulteration in commonly used foods
- ITK on Safe Storage of Cereals and Pulses
- Development of value added products from Sprouted pulses