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How to reduce post-harvest losses in supply chain of fruits & vegetables?

Start Date :

Jan 01, 2015

Last Date :

Feb 02, 2015

04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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India is the World’s second largest producer of Fruits & Vegetables. However, the processing of perishable products in our country is very low, in comparison to the ...

India is the World’s second largest producer of Fruits & Vegetables. However, the processing of perishable products in our country is very low, in comparison to the developed countries or developing countries like China, Brazil, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. One of the main constraints in the growth of processing of fruits & vegetables in the country is non-availability of modern and suitable infrastructure with efficient supply Chain. Consequently, there is very high level of wastage of the fruits & vegetables in the country resulting in the farmer not getting adequate remuneration for his yield. A study conducted by Central Institute of Post Harvesting Engineering Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana, an ICAR institute, reveals that wastage in various agricultural crops in the country range from 6-18% and the highest loss has been shown in fruits and vegetables.

Ministry of Food processing Industries invites views/ suggestions for reduction of these losses.

Last date for sending your suggestions is 1st February 2015.

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Jeetesh Dadlani 11 years 5 months ago

Respect ,In our India we lack of information of handling fruits and vegetables so we can teach the people how to care of it also use of waste material came out from them making manure from them even i have seen big hotels have lot of wastage from there luxury concern, we can make groups able to do farm and harvest in our society area and the biggest thing have to teach fruit market people so that they will help to other people to carry forward the safety majors of fruits and vegetables thanku

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SP SINGH RATHORE 11 years 5 months ago

there is need of cold storage facility at tehsil level for preserving fruits&vegetables&establishing food processing units

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pramod sakharkar 11 years 5 months ago

The (school )& near by college should train the son and duaghter of the farmer for practical utility of technology developed by CFTRI or CSIR lab thru Skill development programme of College ,by Bank cooperation, by Social Justice dept all coming together as one head to train the farmer son and daughters to process their farm products.The finished food can be marked by the bank / college / social justice dept trade fair. .

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mansi biswas 11 years 5 months ago

Learn from Best Practices that are already established in successful countries.And implement the most feasible one. We have an organisation FCI, who are paid to do this job. They are requested to do their Job efficiently thats all.

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K K SINGH 11 years 5 months ago

Connecting produces to the market /consumers should be the priority.Developing fast movement,primary processing and creating scientific storage can help reducing the losses. Creation of specialized hubs in production belts with rapid bulk transport facilty to distant markets is the weakest link.

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Madhav Godbole 11 years 5 months ago

To reduce wastage of fruits ,vegetables:1.Govt to update the detailed town wise consumption of fruits and vegetables for whole India thro' digital India continuously updated to producers all over India and encourage their production near the their respective consumers thro' money incentives 2All the produce to be packed in paper bags of different sizes with two dates the first date for premium consumption the second date to indicate date beyond which unfit for consumption.

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Ashok Dhayalaraj 11 years 5 months ago

The first and foremost task is to introduce the task that the farmer directly sells in the open market and to improve the logistics in such a way that the farmer can easily bring his produce in without much wastage.

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Deepak Kabadagi 11 years 5 months ago

Start building cold storage areas in all districts. This helps in employment of more people. Also one has to follow this pattern - fresh vegetables collection --> packaging --> storage --> distribution. Educate farmers more about handling the same.

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Vijay Ambiger 11 years 5 months ago

Educating the farmers is good but instead of educating them give preference to the agriculture colleges in Karnataka more then 300 engg. Colleges are present, but only 7-8 agriculture colleges are rolling...

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Manoj Mishra 11 years 5 months ago

Deepest penetration hamare desh me post offices ki hai. Har post office ko road, aur transport se joda jaye. Aisee vyavastha kee jaye, ki kisee bhi post office pe ek aaddmi koi bhi perishable agricultural product le ja ke jama kar sake. Post office se nearest market, aur aage bhi bheja ja sake. Is kaam se rojgar bhi badhegi.

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