Post harvest losses of fruits causes and remedies

摘要

India has diverse agro climatic factors and produces a wide range of fruits and vegetables. It is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetable in the world. It produces about 50 million tones of fruits and 98 million tones of vegetables. Owingto lack of production planning, postharvest infrastructure and climatic factors a huge accumulation of particular fruit take place in a particular region resulting in glut. Therefore, growers are forced to make distress sale and substantial quantity of the produce goes waste. It is unfortunate that India wastes more fruits than, are consumed in U.K. Hence it is necessary to have proper post-harvest handling and wide market distribution system so that growers get remunerative prices and consumer pay less.