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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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Sunil Ratra 11 years 8 months ago

Daughters are the lifeline of the family..there one smile can buy you million dollars..save girl child...they are not burden infact they should b princess to a father

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chandra sekhar behara 11 years 8 months ago

set up storage facilties with minimum price at village levels ......eliminate middle man govt has set up separate department to look the issues.....

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Karthika Mathiazhagan 11 years 8 months ago

Mainly the goods of large amount are wasted in cities most of the villages does not having good storage facilities. The main use chemical fertilizers also result in wastage of product and it is also not healthier and good product this has to be rectified first

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Nava Ratan Binani 11 years 8 months ago

I wish Sanskrit should be available as 3rd language option not only in Government schools but in all private schools as well. Let all boards jointly agree to give affiliation to only those schools which gives such option. One should realize Sanskrit is mother of all languages.Respect it, which it deserves.

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Deepak Aggarwal 11 years 8 months ago

Dear P.M. I only want to know if a girl marries a foreigner, whether she remains a citizen of India?

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Ramesh Nachimuthu 11 years 8 months ago

Planing farming will be fruitful. Actually, maximum all farmers knows the seasonal crop and selling.Govt. give the cold storage facility to farmers and also the Gov. make the farmers to aware about the seasonal crop marketing plan throughout India. then only they know what are all the crops and vegetables needed for what kind of season. Also the Govt. advice the farmers the importance of exporting vegetables to broad. we have enough land and enough and excellent farmers in our nation.

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Prasad Patil 11 years 8 months ago

Can we have a team of Intellectuals given a task of creating an embedded chip specially for patients with high degree of #narcotics and other additive substance abuse which can immediately detect high heartbeat levels and send alerts to family members as and when the patient does the abuse. An embedded solution placed under the skin in the back below the scapula bone will avoid tamper by the addict. We can have the chip connect directly to cloud portal or a Mobile device via wifi tethering.

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pratheep o 11 years 8 months ago

There are still lot of villages in Kerala not having 3G data connectivity by any operators. Just to give an example Kinassery (in Palakkad District).As part of digital India campaign can we get 3G connectivity to all the villages in kerala. Since the state is small I beleive it is easy to implement.

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pratheep o 11 years 8 months ago

I request Government to take appropriate action in enabling VOIP services within India i.e. from PC and other applications to Landline and Mobile within India. As per my understanding at present rule is not allowing the operators to enable this feature. As we are focusing on digital india i request Government to take appropriate action.

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Ameya Joshi 11 years 8 months ago

There is no need to build expensive temperate controlled warehouses. Only one thing is needed, faster access to markets, which can be done by having better roads and reducing the transportation time. Better roads also mean that losses due to all vegetables & fruits stacked togeather and bumping against each other are very low

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