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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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Devashish Mishra 11 years 7 months ago

Sir, as AMUL formula has worked for milk and many such Co-Operative Societies throughout country, have learnt and adopted similar techniques of procuring, processing and marketing milk, which is also a perishable food item, the similar techniques can be implemented like Creating Co-Operative Society on pilot project basis with technical inputs from Agriculture, Horticulture and Food Processing Departments and the co-op societies could have their own Cold Storage in villages.

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manju goswami 11 years 7 months ago

This is in continuation of my last post Thirdly,distilleries, juice factoriesor other modes of preservation like jam, jelly and pickles etc. should be established near the fruit orchards.

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manju goswami 11 years 7 months ago

Sir, With due respect; it is my perception that most of the fruits and vegetables are lost due to mismanagement in this chain which at the ground zero starts from the farmer/producer to the consumer. Firstly, I would like to say that in each district their should be warehouses small or big depending on the need of that area: how much maximum production they have. Secondly,for distribution transportation system should be good,chain well connected with road,rail,air and ship.

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Tony Miranda 11 years 7 months ago

In view of the lifestyle diseases there needs to be a change in food consumption patterns.A panel of eminent doctors and nutritionists could devise a new community and region specific consumption plan. Thereafter the demand for each item of consumption could be forecast and accordingly a plan to achieve the production on a nation wide basis could be devised. Thus all people could have optimum nutrition and food production potential can be optimally harnessed.

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Tony Miranda 11 years 7 months ago

Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board has started concept of Mobile Vans.with private participation. This will help to some extent by directly taking the produce to the end consumers.Dehydrating could be an option if there is no loss of nutrition.Pickling is a good idea except that Indian people are not used to the taste of vinegar.

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LP Raman 11 years 7 months ago

Pickling and Freezing are two available options - Pickling - simple blanching or immersing in vinegar can improve shelf life. Done extensively in european countries -eg: pickled olives, cucumber etc. Freezing - Blast freezing can improve but require extensive investments in storage, infrastructure & frozen food transporters to maintain the conditions till it reaches end public. These can help in increasing shelf life when the growth is in abundance & reduce prices when the growth is less.

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sudhir patil 11 years 7 months ago

best way is govt have to open vegitable and fruit shops for every 1000 people by which 1)systematic supply can done2)jobs created 3) quality can matained 4) revenue can generated 5) farmer can sell their products 6)convinient for people to buy 7)time saving going long way to go to buy 8)govt had its control on storage and price

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Prajesh LS 11 years 7 months ago

Online auctions through Agricultural Department websites enables farmers to advertise their harvesting dates, type of product, quantity and date of harvesting well ahead of harvest. By this way farmers will get good opportunities to sell their product and get better profits. In today’s scenario, all the profit is going to middle man. This approach will reduce the involvement of middle man in sales.

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Prajesh LS 11 years 7 months ago

Government shall build and run one Storage place in each panchayats where agriculture is going well. Government can get minimum storage charges from farmers. Each storage house shall have good temperature and humidity control provisions. Storage house shall have different storage conditions and chambers as different vegetables need different storage conditions. By this way government can generate more jobs. Online and Tele requests can be an option for sales.

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neeraj saluja 11 years 7 months ago

We had been doing cold storage route for a long time now...with the advent of technology we should start the reverse approach of aggregating the demand of the consumers and harvesting only that much produce of the perishable goods as desired by the consumer groups. consumer aggregation needed to be undertaken and their daily requirement shall be gathered by the fruits, vegetable marketing boards to be ordered to the farmers cooperatives providing the produce. Veggies delivered daily like milk

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