Importance of post harvesting management

Post harvesting management important to prevent hunger of people because, in the world enough food produce but there are no correct methods to manage post harvesting losses. So still some people die due to hunger and considerable amount of food waste due to follow incorrect post harvesting management practices. Did not want to increase the food production in the world. We have to reduce post harvesting losses it will help to increase the food production without increasing input usage and land usage.

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In our export department offer subject, name post harvesting management of horticultural crops. Under that we learnt many techniques to manage post harvesting loss. For that firstly identify the practices affect to post harvesting losses. They are, long supply chain, improper transport facilities, unsuitable packaging material, most of the horticultural products sell in the market under low price so producers not go for high value packaging material to minimize post harvesting losses. They only consider the price of packaging material. By spending low amount of money, they try to get maximum profit. Due to pest, disease and physiological reactions also cause to those losses. For example, respiratory process does not stop after harvesting. In that process commodities take oxygen and produce carbon dioxide, water, ethylene. Because of that after harvesting huge water losses occur from the surface of the commodities it causes to increase the food losses.

Today post harvesting management is crucial thing to protect our food reserves. For that have to start in small step by providing better transport facilities from producer to retailer or whole seller. Through that can protect our fruits and vegetables and can facilitate food requirement of whole the world with out any death due to hunger.