Post harvest machinery and storage of agricultural produce
Strengthening Indian Cold Chain With Solar Pv Power
1. C. Maheshwar Anglo Eastern Maritime Academy Inter Solar India Mumbai 13-15 December 2011
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3. This presentation is dedicated to the thousands of Indian farmers involved in growing fruits and vegetables who have committed suicide in the last ten years due to market compulsions and post harvest losses.
We focus on economic aspects of inland transportation and storage of high value fruits & vegs
How about the cost of storage for such long periods assuming that the tech is there.
They are attracted by high profitability of f&v compared to alternate crops without adding the post harvest losses and carry over charges of storage- When we take these into consideration, what is the true picture like?
Dairy (Amul) model appropriate but here we deal with a mix of low value high volume f&v and all may not justify carry ver cost per tom
CC defined to include farm level procurement points to grading/processing point to retail.
This shows that the traditional marketing channels have to be restructured and modernized. This is where the private-public partnership looks promising.
Can the Reefer Containers avoid extensive cold storages at village level (on the lines Amul did)? How does this mechanism be made technically feasible and cost effective for Indian rural road conditions? If so, what is the optimum capacity under Indian conditions? Can the Amul pattern of self-help groups(or coops) at village level and f&v collection routes for RC with a district Federation as a Section 25 producers’ company for packaging and distribution. Our aim is to indicate a viable O&M approach….