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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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Swatantra Mishra 11 years 7 months ago

Better roads, Better vehicle, Proper placement of fruits and vegetables in the truck would help. Using shock absorber like sponge or thermocol or the fresh unwanted leaves from these fruits and vegetable would help. Thanks.

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

harvest losses are not happening.. they are designed to happen.Strict action and monitoring has to be taken against traders who mint money by hoarding stuff and unnecessarily creating a fake shortage of food items and then selling little by little to keep the rising prices momentum

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

unless the mindset of the traders changes and strict action is taken against them, nothing will improve.

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

pooling by traders and vendors has to be stopped. Ideally at the end of the day prices should be low and vendors should sell all their stuff , especially perishable items like leafy vegetables like palak, methi etc tomatoes etc, but this does not happen.Prices once fixed are kept like that only, even if they are thrown, but they are never sold at reduced prices, such is the mentality

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

in each and every vegetable, fruit or grocery market all vendors pool in and decide a price. a buyer may travel from kashmir to kanyakumari but the prices are fixed and are more-or-less the same. Fruits and vegetables are allowed to get spoilt and eventually thrown in the garbage bin, but prices are not allowed to dip at any cost. Evening time we see garbage bins full of vegetables that got spoiled but were not sold out, since prices were kept high and fixed

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

onions grown in latur and nashik which are a few hours drive are sold at exorbitant prices in MUmbai...hoarders and black marketers are enjoying since more than a year now

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

wheat grown in Punjab is never sold in mumbai markets, where does it go ? In Mumbai's markets we only get MP Sihore wheat which comes from Madhya Pradesh. Govt has to find some solution to this problem.

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

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kaur k 11 years 7 months ago

bring the grower nearest to the consumer, this will reduce wastage of fruits and veggies , be healthy for the public as they will consume fresh stuff -a healthy population will be a national asset.Middlemen who hoard and increase prices like we are seeing in onions and potatoes now where prices have stabled at Rs. 30 a kg and not going down at all

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K VASUDEVA RAO 11 years 7 months ago

Integrating the plucking and packaging activity with transport and food processing sector would reduce the burden on cold storage houses, which require continous power and there by increasing the cost without any value addition.Integrating the road, rail, sea coneectivity would also reduce the cost of transporation and evacuation of goods from the farm reduces the wastage.Increasing the qualityof plucking and packaging activity through innovative methods would also reduce the frieght losses.

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