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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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Rajesh Kumar Baid
Rajesh Kumar Baid 11 years 10 months ago
Respected Sir, You have set a scorching pace in announcing reforms, but I you should be more assertive in implementation. Proper implementation is the key thing. You have several channels of feed back and you should set target based and time bound targets.
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Rajesh Kumar Baid
Rajesh Kumar Baid 11 years 10 months ago
Respected Sir, As you know energy is the most vital thing now. I have read that our transmission loss is much higher than normal rate of loss. I think you must initiate steps to minimize the transmission losses.
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Kishore Menon
Kishore Menon 11 years 10 months ago
By forming a Self Help Group (SHG) among the farmers which is to be co-ordinated in district level. The SHGs in various districts have to be work together for better result. They have to provide warehouse facilities and transportation facilities, find wholesale dealers or act itself as wholesale dealer, find good market place and promote the products. The activities of SHG to be strictly monitored and supervised by the district authorities like Collector or ADM.
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dr anil shah
dr anil shah 11 years 10 months ago
The farmers should be provided with proper transport f facility from farm to area where they will sell their produce either in form of ac vehicles or freezer or fast transport as per requirement or send pepole to their farm for purchase of their products
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Ritesh Singh
Ritesh Singh 11 years 10 months ago
Nmste sir according to me India ko 1 developed country bnane k liye sbse phle unemployment ko dur karna hoga agar hum unemployment ko khtm kar denge to proverty apne aap dur ho jayega aur agar proverty khtm ho jayega to hmare desh garib yuva vi litterate honge agar kewal unemployment and proverty humare desh se khtm ho jayenge to humare desh ka per capitaii income bdh jayega, humare desh ka proerty rate me kami aa jayega, and humare litteracy rate me vi incteasement aa jayega aur jha tk hum smjhte h ye tino factot 1 country ko developed bnane bhut importance rakhti h And thanks sir fot giving us opportunity to share our thoughts
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Viral raval
Viral raval 11 years 10 months ago
To built local storage/ warehouse depot to store harvested yield and transfer the stored food to designated destination or we can promote drivers to supply harvested food, vegetables to destination within shortest time and they should be incentivised.
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VN Shukla
VN Shukla 11 years 10 months ago
There can be many consumers like me who uses max 6 LPG cylinders in a year. These types of consumers are indirectly minimising subsidy load on government. I think on LPG delivery receipt, it should be printed that “you have taken __numbers of cylinder in this calendar year/ financial year. Is it possible to book a cylinder to a consumer without his consent by distributor? Can a consumer trace if distributor books a cylinder to his/her account and delivers cylinder to another.
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ABHISHEK KUMAR
ABHISHEK KUMAR 11 years 10 months ago
We can have a warehouse in each panchayat level where we can keep the post harvest fruits and vegitable with a minimal cost to reduce the losses.
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snehlata jha
snehlata jha 11 years 10 months ago
after being the world's 2nd largest producer in production of fruit and vegetable our position in perishable products is really a point which we have to stress and find a solution for the same.for this we have to properly analyse current method. somewhere we are lacking in proper supply chain and the methods used by them innovation in the method is need of hour. proper storage that is warehouse and their maintenance . proper planning with the help of statistics and use of logistics.
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