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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry. The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services. The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.

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    DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS FROM RED RICE
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2022-08) ANSARI, FARUK; VAIDYA, DEVINA
    ABSTRACT The present study entitled “Development and evaluation of value-added products from red rice” was conducted in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the second largest important cultivated cereal crop. India is among major rice producing countries in world. Rice being invaluable alternative sources of carbohydrate being easily digestible and contributes to about 60 to 70 per cent of the daily energy needs of major chunks of the society. In many rice cultivars pericarp and seed coat exhibits surface colour which classified as coloured rice or pigmented rice such as red and black. These pigmented rice are although nutritionally enriched but unexpected for their nutritional ability. In the present study red paddy procured from Uttarakhand was milled and were evaluated for dimensional, nutritional and functional properties. Red paddy milling characterization were studied and observed milling time of three minutes thirty seconds for one Kg of paddy. The effect of milling on dimensional, optical, gravimetric and nutritional characteristics were recorded with low head rice yield (65.00%), high per cent broken rice (8.00%). Effect of parboiling on yield of milled rice was increased in white as well as red paddy. Puffed red rice processing condition were optimized as hydro heating (15 % moisture content and heating temperature of 250 oC). The bulk density and true density (0.20g/cc and 0.37g/cc) of red puffed rice were higher than white puffed rice reflecting the packaging of puffed rice. Flaked red rice processing conditions optimized were soaking for 15 hours to enhance moisture content 28.00 per cent and heating temperature 145 oCand shade dried with recovery of 58.00 per cent. Extruded products such as pasta are commonly made from durum wheat-derived semolina flour and celiac disease cause due to gluten intolerance is very common now a days. So to overcome that red rice flour can be utilized for pasta making in order to improve its nutritional value. Different concentration of gums (guar, xanthan) and potato starch were used as binding agents and evaluated for various quality characteristics. But red rice pasta with 0.75 per cent guar gum as binding agents was found best and selected for further studies. Study indicated that puffed rice, flaked rice and extruded product such as pasta can be prepared with high quality characteristics from red rice than traditional prepared puffed rice, flaked rice and pasta showed a storage stability of six months in both packaging material (ALP and LDPE) with non-significant changes in physicochemical and sensory characteristics. Hence, it is concluded that using the pigmented rice (red rice) appears to be a realistic way to increase farmers revenue by developing these products (puffed, flakes and pasta) and also offer various health advantages