New Delhi: December 27, 2022: India Honey Alliance (IHA) and National Institute of Food Technology & Entrepreneurship Management (NIFTEM) collaborate with an purpose to strengthen the creation of a strong honey ecosystem in India. The settlement contains identification and mutual collaboration within the areas of, testing methods for honey, analysis and information evaluation, coaching facilitation and any rising areas within the associated fields.

Under the long-term strategic partnership, each the organizations will work collectively to create scientific methods by way of meals security, vitamin for honey and bee-keeping merchandise throughout the nation. NIFTEM has not too long ago received the tag of Institute of National Importance and, will use their tutorial coaching middle to coach the bee-keeping and honey group and FBOs, together with helping within the creation of a strong scientific eco-system for all associated merchandise.

Dr. Chindi Vasudevappa, Vice Chancellor, NIFTEM, “We are looking forward to collaborating with India Honey Alliance (IHA) in their vision to support and strengthen the honey ecosystem. Together with IHA, we aim towards establishing and setting up industry benchmarks for quality, authenticity and safety of Indian honey, and work towards creating robust, affordable and accessible technology for the honey industry. Together, we look forward to awareness activities which will promote knowledge and information dissemination & training of stakeholders.”

Additionally, the International Centre of Excellence in Food Safety & Quality at NIFTEM would additionally operate as a National Reference Laboratory of IHA within the chosen space of competence for the aim of honey authenticity, technique growth, proficiency testing and many others. NIFTEM will even operate as the educational companion of IHA for creating the content material and conducting the coaching, for all areas of the honey worth chain, by a joint certification program.

Speaking on the event, Deepak Jolly, General Secretary, IHA stated, “The honey industry in India has a huge potential to grow. However, we have not been able to take full advantage of the available opportunities of the sector and there is a long way to go when it comes to organizing the fragmented industry. There are several challenges at the ground level which include training and capacity framework, understanding & rollout of appropriate testing methodology, quality, authenticity etc. Our partnership with NIFTEM is a step forward in addressing many such issues. We hope that this collaboration will be highly fruitful and will result in win-win for both IHA and NIFTEM.”

The NIFTEM amenities could be utilized by IHA because the Centre for Training of Trainers (ToT) in numerous hands-on-training programs, meals analysts and different laboratory personnel; and, as a coaching companion for numerous programs and modules as mutually agreed. One of a very powerful targets of this partnership is to develop enough variety of educated and licensed honey & bee-keeping professionals for the nation’s honey business. Further, IHA will even help NIFTEM in organising the bee-keeping park in NIFTEM by utilization of obtainable sources.