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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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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 7 months ago
Hence the cost of the vegetable is too high and the end users are sufferings because of the price hike on the vegetables. The real benefiter is traders only. If we abolish the trader’s role in the vegetable and fruits marketing, we will get significant improvement in the vegetable and fruits marketing contd..
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 7 months ago
2. At the seller point, they are also taking the consideration of decompose situation of the vegetables and fruits and increasing some % of the cost on the vegetables other than their profits to compensate if the vegetable gets decompose and selling the vegetables @ high cost. contd..
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 7 months ago
The traders are purposefully doing these kinds of activities because, to get the price down with the formers. The formers also, in order to avoid this situation, they are offering very low price to the trades. In fact, some times the formers are not at all getting their yield cost from their selling’s. But the traders are selling very high price to the seller. contd..
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 7 months ago
1. Now, if we see the marketing of vegetables and fruits, neither the former nor the sellers are getting benefits. The traders are earning more profit in this marketing, I can say, because of the traders activities, the non moving stock of vegetables and fruits are getting increased at the formers point. Which caused lot of chances for the vegetables will get in to unused condition because it is highly perishable in nature. contd..
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 7 months ago
Respected Prime Minister Sir, This is the big task before every farmer in India. I would like to bring the following suggestion for your kind Perusal contd..
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Vijayakumar Jaganathan
Vijayakumar Jaganathan 11 years 7 months ago
Post harvest losses in supply chain of fruits and vegetables can be reduced by advance planning of marketing. That is the availbility of approximate quantity of fruits and vegetables on a future date should be uploaded from the producer's places by way of engaging mobile uploading of information units of government agencies which will send a copy of the same by SMS to producers. If any producers produce is not uploaded which can be done by getting SMS from such producers. Each producer mobile number can be registered with government agency through online.
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Binod Gupta
Binod Gupta 11 years 7 months ago
Construction of new small scale industries for making pickle like product with good quality will consume at larger scale .Govt should open at each and every village on PPPP model.Pickle is only example we can open so many preserve food product with many ideas with the help of SSI
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varun sourav
varun sourav 11 years 7 months ago
Make a portal, where farmer can check where the scarcity/demand of particular veg. & fruit is so that they can transport their item to that city or town. Mandatory to register here for getting information like creating e-mail id. Also this portal will show the market condition and rate at the MANDI, so that farmer will not get cheated. This site will be updated daily & also show the list of spoiled fruit/veg. buyers & organization who will process to get manure or cattle feed or generate power
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madhu thakur
madhu thakur 11 years 7 months ago
Post harvest losses of fruits and vegetables mainly occur due to overripening which is enhanced by ethylene production.To delay ripening we can use biotechnological techniques which is beneficial and in addition does not cause any harm to the environment.
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sethuraman kidambi
sethuraman kidambi 11 years 7 months ago
providing markets at the nearest place to the production site(agricultural fields),construction of cold storage godowns at mandal levels sothat we can connect the villages where vegetables are produced with towns near.proper roads transport fascilities are additional factors
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