Human resource management training for post-harvest management and value addition products

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Human resource management training for
post-harvest management and value addition
products
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Introduction

• Human Resource Management (HRM, HR) is the
  management of an organization's employees.
• While human resource management is sometimes
  referred to as a "soft" management skill,
  effective practice within an organization
  requires a strategic focus to ensure that people
  resources can facilitate the achievement of
  organizational goals.

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• Training on Post-Harvest Technologies
• The Basics of Postharvest Technology
• The three main objectives of applying postharvest
  technology to harvested products are
• 1.To maintain quality (appearance, texture,
  flavor and nutritive value)
• 2 .To protect food safety, and
• 3.To reduce losses (both physical and in market
  value) between harvest and consumption.

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Postharvest Technology
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• Temperature and Relative Humidity Control
• Fruits, vegetables and cut flowers are living,
  respiring tissues separated from their parent
  plant.
• Keeping products at their lowest safe
  temperature (0 C or 32 F for temperate crops or
  10-12C or 50-54 F for chilling sensitive crops)
  will increase storage life by lowering
  respiration rate, decreasing sensitivity to
  ethylene gas and reducing water loss.

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• Storage practices

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• Storage of horticultural crops
• The lot of produce must not contain damaged or
  diseased units, and containers must be well
  ventilated and strong enough to withstand
  stacking.
• In general proper storage practices include
  temperature control, relative humidity control,
  air circulation and maintenance of space between
  containers for adequate ventilation, and avoiding
  incompatible product mixes.

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• Value Addition
• Value added refers to the additional value
  created at a particular stage of production or
  through image and marketing.
• Value added agriculture is a process of
  increasing the economic value and consumer appeal
  of an agricultural commodity.
• It is an alternative production and
  marketing strategy that requires a better
  understanding of the rapidly changing food
  industry and food safety issues, consumer
  preference and effective management.

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• Public sector organizations involved in the
  postharvest management of horticultural crops
• 1.National Horticulture Board (NHB)
• 2.Agricultural and Processed Food
  Products Export Development Authority (APEDA)
• 3.National Dairy Development Board
  (NDDB)
• 4.National Cooperative Development
  Corporation (NCDC)
• 5.Ministry of Food Processing Industries
  (MFPI)
• 6.National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB)
• 7. Indian Council for Agricultural
  Research (ICAR)
• 8.National Bank for Agriculture and
  Rural Development
• 9. Commodity Boards - Spice, Coffee,
  Coconut, Agmark, etc

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• Strategies Needed by Scientists
• Application of conventional and biotechnological
  processes to the development of improved
  varieties having high production potential with
  high quality attributes and resistance to biotic
  and abiotic stresses
• Research into mechanization of the
  processing of unexploited indigenous as well as
  exotic crop species.
• Development of economical methods of
  monitoring temperature and relative humidity in
  CA/MA/MAP/Low pressure storage Technological
  improvement of the minimal processing of fresh
  produce.

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• Strategies Needed by Growers
• Adaptation of the technique of high density
  planting in order to increase productivity and
  quality, for crops such as mango, pineapple,
  banana, tomatoes, onion, potatoes, etc.
• Efficient land and input use programs arid
  cultivation, fertigation, water harvesting
• Mechanization of efficient harvesting
  techniques particularly for large orchards and
  plantations.
• Knowledge on postharvest biology of the
  produce.

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Strategies Needed by Industries

• Technologies, industrial plants and machinery
  must be designed to suit the processing
  requirements of available raw materials at
  specific locations
• Facilitate industrialization in production
  centres.
• Industry should make provision for
  guaranteeing stable prices to horticulturalists
  and reliable supplies must be provided at a
  reasonable price to the consumer
• Improvement of low cost appropriate
  packaging material
• Focus on the utilization of the wastage from the
  processing industry as by products.

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Let us sum up

• Postharvest management and technology adoption is
  a continuous uninterrupted active process
  undertaken by a chain of researchers, extension
  workers, growers and end users.
• Consideration must therefore be given to the
  following by planners, administrators and other
  concerned Encourage the corporate sector to
  undertake contract farming of crops to keep away
  multiple intermediaries between grower and
  processor
• Replicate the Safal market of Bangalore in other
  locations of the country to achieve backward,
  forward and terminal marketing of produce
• Establish farm level zero energy cool chambers
  and expand the use of cold chains for transport
  and storage Introduce private and corporate
  entrepreneurs in sharing investment in the
  establishment of efficient marketing systems
• Create an on-line marketing information system
  Increase the number of AEZ/SEZ for export
  oriented crops like mango, banana, grapes,
  pomegranate, gherkins, onion, potato etc., in the
  country. Including small and marginal farmers who
  lack market power for merchandising their
  produce
• Training of farmers through institutions,
  universities, NGOs and Government agencies on
  Field Assessment of Quality (FAQ) crops for
  export. Integration of horticulture with agro
  rural tourism.

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