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Postharvest management of horticultural crops for doubling farmer’s income

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Title Postharvest management of horticultural crops for doubling farmer’s income
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Creator A Nath, LR Meena, Vinod Kumar and AS Panwar
 
Subject Horticulture, Post-harvest management, Value addition, Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Doubling farmer’s income
 
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In India, the diverse agro climatic conditions, varied soil type and abundance of rainfall offers immense
scope for cultivation of different types of horticultural crops, including fruits, vegetables, flowers,
plantation crops, tuber and rhizomatous crops and crops of medicinal and aromatic importance. India is
the second largest producer (after China) of both fruits and vegetables in the world. Horticultural produce
including flowers also earns good in export earnings for the country. Unfortunately about 25-30% of
horticulture produce, 10-25% of vegetables and 30-40% of flowers gets wasted due to lack of postharvest
management which resulted in huge loss of crores of rupees. The minimization of these postharvest
losses may be reduced by extending the shelf life of fresh horticultural produces either through
pre or post-harvest management practices or by processing it into different value added products. Several
factors influence the post-harvest losses in fruits and vegetables that include losses due to physical,
physiological, mechanical and unhygienic conditions, lack of proper storage conditions, refrigerated
facilities and diseases and pests, etc. While harvesting to handling for storage till marketing several
wound pathogens are known to infect the produced that destroy the keeping quality, quantity ultimately
economic losses. Post-harvest decay of fruits and vegetables occur either between flowering and fruit
maturity or during harvesting and subsequent handling and storage. There are many technologies already
developed in the past which are available in the literature but are not practiced may be due to either
materials are not available locally, not much effective or the technology is more costly. By adoption of
simple post-harvest management practices, processing and value addition operation viz., proper
harvesting, sorting, grading, packaging, pulping, pickling, drying and dehydration at farmer’s level
during the peak season will help in minimization of post-harvest losses as well as doubling the farmer’s
income
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Date 2018-12-03T04:45:41Z
2018-12-03T04:45:41Z
2018-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Nath, A., Meena, L.R., Sharma, Kumar, V. and Panwar, A.S. 2018. Postharvest management of horticultural crops for doubling farmer’s income. Journal of Pharmacognocy and Photochemistry 2682-2690.
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/15112
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Society of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry (Registration no. S/2042/SDM/NW/2014)