Agro Food Intellect highlights nationally recognized academic innovation in freeze drying technology led by researchers from the University of Karachi and NED University. The teams developed Pakistan’s first academic scale prototype freeze drying machine, introducing a globally established, billion dollar food preservation technology into the local agri food landscape. Freeze drying enables long term food preservation up to 25 years without chemical preservatives, while retaining nutritional value, taste, and structure. The locally manufactured system demonstrated successful preservation of fruits, eggs, herbs, etc., offering a fully organic and sustainable shelf life extension solution.
This innovation represents a major step toward indigenous food processing capacity, reduced post harvest losses, and high value export potential, reinforcing AFI’s commitment to promoting science driven, locally developed solutions for resilient agri food systems.
