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    Present Status and Scope of Post Harvest Technoogy in India: Scientist (Agril. Processing & Food Engineering)

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    India is a major producer of horticultural crops like fruits and vegetables, however post-harvest losses remain high between 20-40% due to lack of proper infrastructure, transportation, processing and storage facilities. Only 2% of horticultural produce is processed in India compared to over 30% in other developed countries. Developing post-harvest technology and processing can help reduce losses, boost food security and farmers' incomes by adding value to produce and extending shelf life.

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    Present Status and Scope of Post Harvest Technoogy in India: Scientist (Agril. Processing & Food Engineering)

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    India is a major producer of horticultural crops like fruits and vegetables, however post-harvest losses remain high between 20-40% due to lack of proper infrastructure, transportation, processing and storage facilities. Only 2% of horticultural produce is processed in India compared to over 30% in other developed countries. Developing post-harvest technology and processing can help reduce losses, boost food security and farmers' incomes by adding value to produce and extending shelf life.

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    India is a major producer of horticultural crops like fruits and vegetables, however post-harvest losses remain high between 20-40% due to lack of proper infrastructure, transportation, processing and storage facilities. Only 2% of horticultural produce is processed in India compared to over 30% in other developed countries. Developing post-harvest technology and processing can help reduce losses, boost food security and farmers' incomes by adding value to produce and extending shelf life.

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    Present Status and Scope of Post Harvest Technoogy in India: Scientist (Agril. Processing & Food Engineering)

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    PRESENT STATUS AND

    SCOPE OF POST
    HARVEST TECHNOOGY
    IN INDIA
    Presentation by,
    Er. Bhagwat Kumar
    Scientist (Agril. Processing & Food Engineering)
     India is a second largest producer of fruits and vegetables after
    China.
    These share are 10% and 16% respectively in total world
    production.
     Horticulture crops occupy 25.43 million ha and production is
    estimated around 311.71 million tones. 
    Total area of fruits, vegetable, plantation crops, spices, flower
    and aromatic plant are 6506, 10259,
    3744, 3878, 324 and 324 thousand ha, respectively and production
    are 97358, 184394, 18082, 8124, 2785 and 866 thousand tones,
    respectively (2017-18)
    After that losses found 20-30 % in fruit and 30-40 % in vegetable while
    harvesting to consumption in India.
    It's due to the perishable nature of horticulture
    commodity, non availability of appropriate post harvest infrastructure
    transportation, inadequacy of the market or lack of processing.
    India is a major horticulture producer, even though processing is
    less than 2 %. This is very low as compare to 80 % of Malaysia, 78 % of
    Philippine, 70 % of Brazil and 30 % of Thailand. The most of developed
    country 40-60 % fruits and vegetables utilize in processing.

     Proper handling, packaging, transportation and storage reduce the post harvest
    losses of fruits and vegetables. For every one percent, Post Harvest Technology &
    Processing of Horticulture Crops
    1 % reduction in loss will save 5 million tons of fruit and vegetable per year.
    Processing and preservation technology helps to save excess fruit and vegetable
    during the glut season.
    The technology has become a necessity to improve the food safety and
    strengthen nations food security. The technology helps to boost export of
    agricultural commodities in the form of preserved and value added products.
    A comparative Harvest and Post-Harvest losses of major crops and commodities in India
    as per Study Reports of CIPHET released in 2010 and 2015 is given in Table
    • The study has estimated that annual value of harvest and post-harvest losses
    of major agricultural produces at national level was at Rs.92,651 crore
    calculated using production data of 2012-13 at 2014 wholesale prices.
    • In the case of cereals, majority of losses occur at farm level during
    harvesting, collection and threshing. Storage losses are only 0.75 – 1.21 per
    cent.
    • In the case of fruits also, there are high losses in farm level operations.
    • It may be seen that most of the wastage is happening in fruits and
    vegetables. With adequate processing facilities, much of this wastage can be
    reduced thus providing remunerative price to the producer as well as
    ensuring greater supply to the consumer.
    Food processing industries could be divided into four
    group,
    based on their capacity of production:
    A. Large scale unit 250 t/year
    B. Small scale unit 50-250 t/year
    C. Cottage scale unit 10-50 t/year
    D. Home scale unit 10 t/year

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