Dr. Tarsem Chand Mittal is B.Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) and Ph.D from PAU Ludhiana while he did his M.Tech (Post Harvest Engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur. He joined PAU in July 1995 as Assistant Extension Engineer. Since joining PAU, he has been actively involved in research and teaching activities although his main emphasis was in extension activities related to processing and value addition of farm produce, especially the durable crops. He has been instrumental in providing technical guidance to the farmers/ small entrepreneurs for setting up of agro processing complexes (APCs), turmeric processing setups and other units related to value addition of farm produce. Till now he has coordinated more than 150 training courses in the areas of agro processing, storage of produce and entrepreneurship development in value addition. The technologies such as forced air convective recirculatory solar dryer, hybrid solar dryer, turmeric processing machinery developed by him, have received university recognition and stakeholders’ adaptation. He has guided 3 Ph.D and about 15 M.Tech students in their research work. He has to his credit about 40 research publications out of which some are in journals of high repute. He has also published about 50 popular articles for the benefit of farmers. He has brought funds from agencies such as UGC, NABARD, ICAR and other state and central agencies through various adhoc projects. For the PMFME scheme of Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India, He is Master Trainer in the area of Grain Processing.