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Chemical Engineering is another important interdisciplinary stream of science. It deals with physical science and life sciences along with mathematics and economics and develops, maintains the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms. In addition, this stream is also dealing with pioneering valuable new materials and related techniques – which are often essential to related fields such as nanotechnology, fuel cells and biomedical engineering.

Scope in India and abroad:

Chemical engineering is a quite narrow but effective and important stream; therefore, there is a huge demand world over for well trained chemical engineers. The industry especially food processing and oil production industry recruits continuously in this regard. Companies such as Dow Corning Corporation, AT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft, ABC Consultants Pvt. Ltd., GP Batteries International Limited , Excel gas and Equipments Pvt Ltd, Nalco and many more recruits chemical engineers.

All the leading universities along with the IITs having scope for higher studies in this subject and student can choose higher studies (M.Tech/Ph.D) and could be absorbed in even better position.

Abroad especially in the middle east and oil producing countries are having excessive demands of chemical engineers and countries like Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Yemen, Qatar, U.S.A, Australia have excellent placement opportunity in this field.

Courses of chemical engineering in India:

Several national level Institutes offer various courses in chemical engineering, some are as follows: Assam Engineering College, Bihar Institute of Technology , Delhi College of Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur, Jadavpur University, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Government College of Engineering, Thrissur , Regional Engineering College,Rourkela etc.

Agriculture has evolved in to agribusiness and has become a vast and complex system that reaches for beyond the farm to include all those who are involved in bringing food and fiber to consumers. Agribusiness include not only those that farm the land but also the people and firms that provide the inputs (for ex. Seed, chemicals, credit etc.), process the output (for ex. Milk, grain, meat etc.), manufacture the food products (for ex. ice cream, bread, breakfast cereals etc.), and transport and sell the food products to
consumers (for ex. restaurants, supermarkets).

Scope of Agribusiness:

It was already indicated that agribusiness is a complex, system of input sector, production sector, processing manufacturing sector and transport and marketing sector. Therefore, it is directly related to industry, commence and trade, Industry is concerned with the production of commodities and materials while commerce and trade are
concerned with their distribution.

Industry:

Industry refers to the processes of extraction and production of goods meant for final consumption or use buy individual or buy another industry for its production. Thus goods used by the final or ultimate consumers are called “consumer goods” such as edible oils, fruit jams, papaya, pickles etc.

Specialized Courses in India:

In India various national level Institutes are offering specialized agribusiness courses such as IIMs, College of Agribusiness Management (CABM) of G.B. Pant University, PUMBA and others. The job prospects are quite good in this sector and large agri business companies like Monsanto, ITC have regular recruitments.

B.Tech and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering – Courses and Colleges

B.Tech or M.Tech in CABM – Commercial Agriculture and Business Management