• Recognize and achieve to the appropriate post-harvest technologies to reduce quantitative and qualitative wastes and losses of agricultural products and raw and processed foods, 
• Introducing appropriate technologies for optimal use of wastes and losses in the production of valuable products in agriculture and industry,
• Reduction of toxins and production of healthy food products,
• Modification of processing methods and conversion of agricultural products,
• Using of new technologies in the food industry and post-harvest technologies for agricultural products,
• Use of renewable energy in processing and post-harvest technologies for food and agricultural products (with emphasis on solar energy),
• Achieving optimal energy consumption in the processing industries of the agricultural sector,
• Survey and planning of agricultural food processing industries (capacity assessment, prioritization and location of agricultural processing industries in different provinces of the country),
• Standardization of research findings in various fields of food industry and post-harvest technologies of agricultural products,
• Efforts to attract private sector participation and investment in applied research,
• Demanding research-based, needs assessment and determining research priorities based on the country's development plans and current and future needs of the agricultural sector,
• Commercialization of research achievements and technological capabilities of the sector,
• Transfer of existing technical knowledge and technologies,
•  Measuring, monitoring and reducing wastes and losses of strategic agricultural products in the post-harvest stages,
• Optimization of processing methods and conversion of agricultural products,
• Food security issues,
• Development of agricultural processing industries,
• Measuring the exact amount of wastes and losses in different stages of the production, chain,
• Providing appropriate technologies to reduce wastes and losses during the harvest and post-harvest stages,
• Providing technical knowledge/technologies for the use wastes and losses of agricultural products that can be promoted in production or commercial areas and have an applicant from the private or public sector,
• Implementation of research projects in order to develop small rural processing industries,
• Implementation of research projects with the aim of producing new food products / new food formulations that can be implemented in villages, agro-industries and workshop or industrial units,
• Implementing research projects in order to optimize processing methods and conversion of agricultural products,
• Implementing research projects in order to localize new technologies in the food industry,
• Implementation of research projects in order to use renewable energy in processing and post-harvest technologies of agricultural products.

The department has the specialized laboratories and workshops namely as follow:

• Chemistry and Food Analysis Laboratory
• Food Biophysics Laboratory,
• Food Microbiology Laboratory
• Post-harvest technology workshop for agricultural products
• Food industry pilot-plant