Mysuru: City-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a premier CSIR laboratory in India, proposes to establish a dedicated plant at its premises to prepare food to be supplied during natural disasters. It has proposed to develop certain foods with a shelf-life of at least six months. The Institute has broached the idea with the National Disaster Management Authority, which functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs and has proposed to establish the plant if it gets special funding from the Government.
CFTRI has been supplying food to the affected people in calamities since Tsunami in 2004. The most recent disaster was the flood in Kerala and Kodagu last year and to Bhubaneswar during Fani cyclone. Relief foods were prepared at four of its pilot food plants which are otherwise facilities for demonstration on how its various food technologies can be commercialised. It does not have an out-and-out facility as such.
