The Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (formerly Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology) (IIFPT). Institute has a 15-acre campus.
The Institute was organized in 1967 as R&D laboratory in the Modern Rice Mill Complex of Thanjavur Co-operative Marketing Federation (TCMF) at Thiruvarur and aimed at preserving high moisture paddy, since the harvest season in Thanjavur District coincided with the end of the monsoon season.
IIFPT offers B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. programs in Food Process Engineering and M.Tech. programs in Food Science and Technology and Ph.D. in Biotechnology.