These liaison offices have facilities to give skill development trainings, incubation and consultancy services to the farmers, entrepreneurs and students in the field of value addition of agricultural produce and food processing technologies.

[26] Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed with International and National academic institutions, research organizations and industries to carry out R&D activities.

[29] A well established food processing business incubation center is functioning in its main campus at Thanjavur and also in its liaison offices at Guwahati and Bathinda.

The facilities including the equipment and machinery are given on rental basis to stake holders who wish to produce and market test their products before venturing in the food processing businesses.

[30] For its entrepreneurship and employment initiatives, NIFTEM-T received AICTE - Saansad Aadarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) awards 2018 on the theme "Developed Village - Developed Nation' [31] NIFTEM-T is a nodal agency for the Prime Minister - Formalization of Micro Enterprises (PM FME) Scheme, a major initiative of Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India under Atmanirbhar Bharat to provide technical, financial and business support to the existing and new micro level food processing industries.

The scheme aims to enhance competitiveness of existing micro enterprises in the unorganized segment of the food processing industry and support Farmer Producer organizations, Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and other Cooperatives.

For this scheme, IIFPT is serving in capacity building to support micro enterprises, branding and marketing, strengthening of institutions and project management framework.

NIFTEM-T has coordinated with various national level technical institutes and compiled indicative cost norms guidelines hand book for establishment of common incubation facility under PM FME scheme.

[36] NIFTEM-T was one among the six institutes honored with Utkrisht Sansthan Vishwakarma Awards 2019 by AICTE southern region for its best practices and contribution to enhance the income of villages through food processing.