Food production

Food production includes all the processes involved in preparing the food from the raw materials, for human consumption. Food production includes various steps such as cleaning the raw material, packing the product, ingredients addition, etc. This is a great challenge in today's world to fulfils the requirement of  safe and healthier food without harming the environment, in today's world when the population is increasing dramatically. So, food production is considered an important branch of agriculture which ultimately provides the ready made food to the consumers from raw materials.

Food production and education

There is a very important role of education in food production, food is the basic requirement of human as well as of animals, and it is very important to ensure that what we eat should be healthy for us, thus food processing industries required educated professionals. Food production is not only just about distributing the food it includes a number of stages within it from checking the correct proportion of ingredients to making the food ready for marketing or make the food marketable.

Food industries are growing rapidly as per seeing the requirement of food production there are several programes also running by the government of various countries around the world. The food is not went directly from farm to kitchen, it has to be passed from certain guidelines before serving finally, passing from these guidelines makes these food eligible for human consumption. In some countries for e g. India(FSSAI) there is a separate body formed by government which ensures the processing of food and ensure that only the right food material reaches the market which suites the human health.

Process of food production

As we already discussed food production is not a one step process it includes a number of stages from testing the food to making it eligible for market. These processes are described below separately:-

1-Preservation- Presevation  is the basic step in which the producers ensures the preservative quality of food. It can be done by various techniques such as by ,modern methods- this method includes the process like refrigeration., traditional methods- it includes the methods like drying and salting.

2-Enriching protein quantity- Protein is one of the most important constituent of food , as the food is directly ingested by humans an animals so it must fullfils the content of protein for human body.

3-Additives addition- Along with the protein implementation there are other additives too which must be present in a healthy food such as nutritional value, fat, vitamin and other additives too so this is another important step under food production.

These were major steps included under the food processing and its production. These steps must be fuctioned properly so that people should enjoy a healthy diet and and people should get proper dietery requirement with this food. That's why food production is such a complicated and important process.