Seminar on food industries

Seminar on food industries

JAKARTA (JP): In a bid to improve public nutrition during the
economic crisis, the government, food experts and food-related
companies will hold this month a two-day national seminar on food
technology.

The seminar from Oct. 12 to Oct. 13 will focus on programs to
empower small food industries and help them improve the nutrition
value of their products.

Food experts grouped under the Indonesian Association of Food
Technologists (Patpi) stressed the importance of technical
guidance to help about 500,000 cottage food industries.

Patpi said previous efforts to improve the sector were
unsuccessful due to a lack of entrepreneurship on the part of
small producers.

Patpi secretary Tien Muchtadi said the seminar would be held
in cooperation with food companies PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, PT
Monsanto, PT Inti Boga Sejahtera, PT Bogasari Flour Mill, PT
Sentra Pertiwi Bahari and PT Hero Supermarket.

Research works and technical papers on food technology will be
discussed at the seminar. (06)