About the Department

Dear Students,

Welcome to the Department of Food Sciences and Agro-processing (DFSAP). As Head of Department, I want to be one of the first to congratulate and welcome you to our department and University. We are delighted to have you in this department. We have a strong undergraduate program in Food Science and Technology (FST), and Postharvest and Bioprocessing Engineering (BPE). At the postgraduate level, we offer MSc. Food Science, MSc. Food Quality and Safety Assurance and MSc. Post-harvest Engineering and Management. Beside this, our department also offer PhD in Food Science. You have chosen a great department, over the years, our courses such as FST have proven to be popular with student enrollment rate over 100 percent. You will be working with first class instructors dedicated to helping you get the best of university education.

This website provides an overview of the academic programs, research projects, research facilities, profiles of academic members staff, supporting staff, consultancies, research publications, student activities and current department news. We hope you will find this website informative.

If you have further questions after visiting our website, please do not hesitate to contact us. You may also correspond with individual academic members of staff email addresses shown on in this website.

I look forward to meeting you in person!

Yours faithfully,

Rashid Suleiman, Ph.D.
Head Department of Food Science and Agroprocessing
School of Engineering and Technology
Sokoine University of Agriculture
rashid[at]sua.ac.tz