Under the National Agricultural Development Programme scheme entitled “Kayalagam” – The Future Store for Amplification of Marketing of Diversified Fish Products in Tamil Nadu, a training program was conducted for the students of ADM College for Women, Nagapattinam on 20th September, 2019. The training program on Business Opportunities in Value-added Fish Products held at Fish Processing Incubation Facility, College of Fisheries Engineering, Nagapattinam. Fourteen student’s participants were benefitted from this training programme. The Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. P. Karthickumar welcomed the gathering. Dr. K. Rathnakumar Professor and Head, inaugurated and also gave the presidential address on the need for the value added fish products and the various products that are available. Furthermore, he delivered a lecture on the hygienic handling of fishes and what are all the products that can be prepared from sea food materials. The trainees were shown around the facilities available in the centre and the utilization of those were explained. They also had hands on training in preparing fish powder incorporated cup cake. In addition to that, they also had practical exposure on puff corn preparation using a twin screw extruder. A brainstorming session was also conducted at the end of the programme and the Dean Dr. R. Rajendran, Professor and Head and the Co-Principal investigator participated in this session. The program was coordinated by Dr. P. Karthickumar.
