An Analysis of Adoption of Post-harvest Management Practices and Engineering Wquipments Among Grape Growers

摘要

AGRICULTURAL Engineering had contributed significantly to agricultural production in the country both directly and indirectly, The number of modem machineries used in agriculture is fairly a good index of progress made during the last four decades Grape is one of the important commercial crops where the machanization of grape production act as a catalyst to improve the efficiency of inputs and reducing losses at various stages of production and post production besides reducing human drudgery in farmoperations Efficient use of engineering inputs also facilitates processing and value addition to grape produce leading to quality end pcoduct in competitve price in both national as well as international markets. This study contemplates to find out the exteot of adoption of sustainable grape post harvest machinerices/practices as well as engineering equipments in two popular grape varjetias viz. Thompson seedless and Bangalore blue in two different location of the Karnataka.