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

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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Promita Sen
Promita Sen 11 years 6 months ago
Set up a Perishable Food Storage Autonomous body. They will act as both a Venture Capital Fundis as well as Technology Advisors. This can be a PPP initiative e.g like IL&FS. They will be a nodal body for helping farmers and as the initial intermediary for private or Govt. service providers. They will be the "GO TO" place with online and physical presence in all states. They will provide information of existing facilities and track new facilities, in order to share good practices & avoid overlaps
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Vikrant khokar
Vikrant khokar 11 years 6 months ago
Promote entrepreneurs to work at local level to establish Controlled Atmosphere storage and modern processing tech with local farmer and/or co-operatives (represented by local panchayat representatives and administration officials) as partners to the growth. A part of subsidies amount should be directed to make the farmer compete adding value to the product. The same may be easier achieved by inviting foreign money and in return giving away the profits of value addition that should go to farmers
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m r natarajan
m r natarajan 11 years 6 months ago
1. Identify the areas, where large scale production of fruits and vegetables and post harvest losses are very high. 2. Encourage the manufactures/traders to construct appropriate cold strorages. 3. Also encourage other support service organisations in the cold chain (supply chain) to contribute their roles very effective 4. Bring the latest technology 5. Conduct exposure visits to the various stake holders to such areas, where the post-harvest losses had been minimised.
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Nilesh Choudhary
Nilesh Choudhary 11 years 6 months ago
There should be cooperative cold storage and food processing unit present in each Tehsil. We should motivate the dry/dehydrated vegetables which have long term self preservative properties.There is need of dehydration center in each district. No vegetable should stay in market more than 3 days. If vegiee not sold in 3 days then it should transfer to dehydration unit.
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Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta 11 years 6 months ago
The first step to reduce post-harvest losses in supply chain of fruits & vegetables i sto build a database of the details of which fruit and vegetables is being grown in each farm and area under cultivation. Then this data is to be mapped village and district wise to find out the estimated quantity of different fruits and vegetables being grown in each district of the country. Compilation and analysis of this data needs to be done with the existing supply chain (availability of warehouse, transportation, mandis etc) to identify the reasons for the post harvest losses. Corrective action then can be taken depending on the nature of problem identified - ie. lack of appropriate warehousing facilities or appropriate transportation facilities or nearby mandis for sale of produce.
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sanjay belsare
sanjay belsare 11 years 6 months ago
Yuvamitra, Sinner dist Nashik has developed innovative initiative wherein vegetables are grown on 5 Are plot with lag of a day , so that that vegetables are harvested on every day through these plots which fetches minimum 1000 per day to farmers each day . Hundreds of farmers adopted this few villages in sinner .it will interesting to replicate these to avoid wastage to same extent and to provide value for agri- produce
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DHEERAJ KUMAR TRIPATHI
DHEERAJ KUMAR TRIPATHI 11 years 6 months ago
In order to curb the rising losses after post harvesting, the Government should ensure smooth transportation of the harvest through building smooth, pot-holes free road, ensuring adequate traffic mechanism, improving the condition of existing and establishing new warehouses and godowns with sufficient use of new technology and use of IT in preserving the fruits and vegetables post-harvest which can be stored for short period till sale.This will also help in lowering inflation and maintaining it.
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leena rajpurohit
leena rajpurohit 11 years 6 months ago
Collect all fruits n vegetables from farmers so that they dont face a loss than govt. Should set up good storage facility so that the quality is nt affectd and can be stored for long period and packaging system should be improved...
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Gaurang Pathak
Gaurang Pathak 11 years 6 months ago
Use advertisement for no lose no waste lines... Use mobilised warehouses who collects the stored food from farmers and get them to the big coming warehouse....
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