Jashbhai Prajapati

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Jashbhai Prajapati
Chairman

Professor (Dr.) Jashbhai B. Prajapati is a Dairy Technology graduate from Gujarat Agricultural University and Ph.D. in Dairy Microbiology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. He retired as the Principal & Dean of the Faculty of Dairy Science at AAU, Anand in October 2020 with 40 years of experience in education and research. He is a renowned academician and scientists in the area of probiotics and fermented foods and has developed several fermented milk based functional products. He is Chairman of Indian Dairy Association, Gujarat State Chapter and Coordinator of SASNET-Fermented Foods. He handled number of research projects sponsored by ICAR, DBT, State Govt., EU, SIDA and has more than 500 publications, including two text books. He has guided 32 MTech and 9 PhD students. He was awarded Chancellors Gold medal for being the best student in the University in 1984 and has received 2 times GAAS Award, 6 times best paper awards. He had Fellowship awards from Erasmus Mundus (EU) as well as Indian National Science Academy. He is a Fellow of Indian Dairy Association as well as Fellow of National Academy of Dairy Science. He is a recipient of Hari Ohm Ashram Award 2015 from Indian Council of Agricultural Research for his outstanding research contribution in probiotics. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Fermented Foods, International Journal of Probiotic and Prebiotics and reviewer for several reputed scientific journals. He is serving as an expert member for many other universities/ institutions and also evaluating start-up proposals from B-school. He is a reviewer for projects/proposals in the area of probiotics and functional foods from DBT, BIRAC-BIG, DST, ICAR, ICMR and several other organizations. At present his engagements are;

  • Chairperson, Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence, Institute of Rural Management, Anand
  • Coordinator, Swedish South Asian Network on Fermented Foods
  • Chairman, Indian Dairy Association (West Zone)
  • Vice President, National Academy of Dairy Science (India)
  • Member of Governing Council of Gut microbiota and probiotic science foundation India.
  • Honorary Member, Board of Governors of the NDDB Foundation for Nutrition (NFN)
  • Adjunct Professor at Bihar Animal Science University
  • Expert for export inspection council of India.
  • Member of scientific panel on milk and milk products of FSSAI
  • Member, Academic Council of Kamdhenu University, Gandhinagar
  • Member, Academic Council of Gujarat Biotechnology University
  • Member, Research Advisory Committee, National Dairy Development Board, Anand
  • Member, Management Committee of CALF Laboratory, NDDB, Anand
  • Member, Management Committee of Quality Mark, NDDB, Anand
  • Chairman, Institutional Ethics Committee, PS Medical College, Karamsad
  • Member in Indian National Committee of International Dairy Federation (IDF) in 3 groups viz., Probiotics, Lactic acid bacteria & starters and Microbiological methods for analysis.

He has widely travelled in Europe and many other countries and has delivered lead talks/keynotes in many conferences including IFT, IDF, IPC, AOAC, ILSI etc and has organized several conferences and workshops for building the network on fermented foods. He is a Life member of several professional bodies like AFSTI, IDA, AMI, ISCA, GAAS, PAI, Biosensor Society of India, etc.

At present he is Chairperson of Dr Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence at Institute of Rural Management, Anand. He is actively leading the programs and projects for the promotion of dairying and for the millions of milk producers of India based on the values of Dr Kurien. He has organized several workshops, training programs, seminars and webinars for the food and dairy professionals.

Role in IDA

Life member of IDA since 1988 and have participated in most of the Dairy Industry Conference since then. Involved in creation of IDA Gujarat State Chapter in January 1998 and since then involved in organizing various seminars, workshops, training program etc. for milk producers, students, dairy professional and so on. Worked as Vice Chairman for 2 terms and at present serving as Chairman of Gujarat Chapter. I am member of ZEC (WZ) since last 2 terms and has been involved in organization of 2 DICs in Mumbai and 1 in Goa. Committed to work for all the stakeholders of dairy and overall development of dairy sector.