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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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Sushil Agarwal 11 years 6 months ago

A lot of schemes and measures are already in places but lack honest execution. The 'Rural Warehouse' scheme promoted by NABARD is one such example.The Government should concentrate on making this scheme easy to apply for and available to small farmers and common man.Then only it can be made successful.Ease of opening a business through this schemes is comparable to climbing Mt. Everest! There must be atleast one smal Cold Store Warehouse & a waste-processing centre at each Mandi Sthal.

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Sachin Nichani 11 years 6 months ago

1. Ban gunny bags and propose that all fruits and vegetables should be transported in crates 2. Allow private warehouses to affiliate with Food Corporation of India, and give them necessary tools to integrate with national food supply chain network 3. Allow farmers to sell produce to anyone, not just APMC 4. Release a central floor price for goods and also allow states to increase the floor price depending on the district 5. Allow farmers to create food cooperatives like Amul

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gouli chandrasekhar 11 years 6 months ago

increasing the usage of canned and packed vegetables in bigger towns. packing and canning done a thaluka level which also increases employment.temporary storage procedures can be shown regularly in tv , paper, and hoardings in small cities so as to be practiced by all.

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DEBASISH PADHY 11 years 6 months ago

Most of the vegetables are damaged due to lack of proper storage, transportation and due to lack of awareness to store using advanced methods.so most of the unemployed youths should be used in this storage and transport system by creating govt udyan freshes.farmers should be encouraged to produce more vegetables which can be available for people at low cost. most important thing is road transport which needs more improvement than preasent

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Sandeep Mali 11 years 6 months ago

Why cant we have a contract between directly between the industry and farmer with the help of government. For eg: Tomato. It has the highest processing options such as sauce, ketchup, puree etc. If the farmer has a year round contract with the industry he would not be dependent on market forces and would not be forced to throw away the yield when the price crashes. Same can be done with onion and potato. What will this do is that it will bring price stability and will benefit all.

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shankar nagarajan 11 years 6 months ago

Fruits and Vegetables are mainly procured and used by Hotels and Departmental Stores. Government should create new Corporation on all India basis to appoint several marketing staff with full pledged vehicles and air conditioned godowns. They will purchase these fruits and vegetables on the spot and deliver to the Hotels and Departmental Stores directly in air conditioned vehicles. The profit earned will be used for the development of this Corporation and to pay for staff and vehicles.

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Uthandaraman Srinivason 11 years 6 months ago

We should bring up the "Contract Farming" in a very big way.... all the Lands which are Not Cultivated due to various reason ( farmers doesn't have sufficient money or land is very small to manage or the land is not fertile ), the respective Government should call for Tender and give these lands to Private Agriculture Companies for Cultivation. There by we can assure Job for those Farmers.

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BALAGANGADHARAN VO 11 years 6 months ago

Make in India is an excellent concept.If one has money,machine and technology production is easy and manageable.But marketing is beyond his control..if Govt Depts including Defense could publish their requirements it will be easie/helpfulr for manufacturers to start up.

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Chandramohan D S 11 years 6 months ago

Good roads can reduce the post-harvest loss of vegetables by 50 % by reaching faster, reducing the transportation damage and can extend the self-life of fruits.

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Digvijay Singh 11 years 6 months ago

In our place cold stores available for only Potato, but we need for all vegetable. Please make a 1 year diploma course in Agri Universities for Storage of fruits and vegetables and make a program for subsidy on making cold stores for fruit and vegetables.... by this way we can increase more business for farmers and other youth.

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