New Delhi, March 24 (KNN) The Central Executive Committee of Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME) has unanimously elected Dr. Sangam Kurade as President for the year 2015-16 during the executive meeting held recently in New Delhi.

A reputed food technologist and the promoter of a successful business unit based in Goa- Zuari Foods and Farms Pvt Ltd, Dr. Kurade has been an executive member of FISME and the Vice President of Goa Industries Association before assuming the post.

A Masters in food technology from the University of Hawaii, an MBA in Business Marketing at the Pacific Western University, he completed his PhD in Food Technology from the University of Tennessee.

Setting up like a typical high-tech start-up at micro scale to manufacture world class button mushrooms in 1994, he led the growth of the enterprise from a 100 kg/day production facility to the one producing button mushrooms 7000 kg/day.

A consistent innovator, he  experimented with mushroom compost using sugarcane baggase and innovated with alluvium from nearby river for casing mixture setting up a sustainable, eco-friendly facility where nothing goes to waste. Even the spent compost is converted into rich bio-fertilizer. For his successful innovations he was conferred ICAR’s Mushroom Grower Award-2014 also.

Besides his long association with industry bodies such as FISME, GIA and Goa Chamber of Commerce, he has been associated with National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), all agro- food processing state institutions and committees set up by Government of Goa and also Bureau of Indian Standards Committee for Foods & Spices, Govt. of India as Member.
  
Dr. Kurade will assume charge from first April 2015. (KNN/AB)