Discusses dehydration of vegetables for preservation, air-dried fruits, fish, animal meat for producing stable and palatable foods. After War, researches have made it possible to produce high quality dehydrated products for military purposes. A start has been made in Pakistan of dehydrating onions, peas, carrots krela potatoes etc. on limited scale. Statistics of production of vegetables in Pakistan, dehydrated vegetables produced under standardized conditions, figures of imports into the U.K. of dehydrated vegetables have been given. The amount and cost of different vegetables to produce per ton of dehydrated products as calculated on the basis of experiments performed on Laboratory and pilot plant scale have been furnished.