Technology on Reducing Post-harvest Losses and Maintaining Quality of Fruits and Vegetables in India
Journal
Technology on Reducing Post-harvest Losses and Maintaining Quality of Fruits and Vegetables Proceedings of 2010 AARDO Workshop
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農業試驗所特刊第147號
Pages
114-124
ISBN
978-986-02-6106-6
Date Issued
2010-12
Date
2010-12
Author(s)
Sita Ram Jat
Abstract
Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable in nature. A considerable amount of these
commodities produced in India is lost due to improper postharvest operations; as a result there is considerable gap between gross production and net availability. Post harvest loss reduction is essential to make available more food from the existing level of production. The losses can be minimized by following simple management practices, such as, sorting and grading, pre-cooling, suitable packaging, proper handling, storage and supply chain management. Therefore, to achieve the target of feeding the growing population as well as meeting the requirements of the processing industry and export trade, only increasing the production and productivity will not be enough. A lot more emphasis needs to be given to post harvest management and maintaining quality of these highly perishable crops.
Event(s)
2010 AARDO Workshop on Technology on Reducing Post-harvest Losses and Maintaining Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
Publisher
農業試驗所
Type
conference paper
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