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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
(PHM)
Introduction
India grows a wide range of fruits and vegetables
due to varied agro-climatic conditions.
As per the NHB (2011) report, the production of
fruits is 72.28 million tonnes and that of
vegetables about 133.54 million tonnes.
Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable
commodities due to high moisture content and
higher metabolic activities.
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Introduction
Spoilage to fruits vegetables mainly occur due
to microbial attack, auto-oxidation and insect
pest attack.
As a result, about 25 to 30 per cent of the
production is lost after harvest
The role of PHM is important for reduction of
post harvest losses of fruits and vegetables and
to make them available for longer period in the
market
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Post Harvest Management (PHM)
Definition
Post Harvest Management (PHM) can be defined as
methods and techniques applied to increase the
shelf life and retain quality of fresh or
processed horticultural produce.
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Scope of Post Harvest Management (PHM)
Post Harvest Losses
PH Losses

• A view of spoilage of fresh fruits by microbes
  and biochemical changes

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Importance of PHM
Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Different practices in PHM
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Scope of PHM
Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
(PHM)
Increase Food Supply
Employment Generation
Value addition
Export Earning
Rural Industrialization
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Scope of PHM
Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Increase Food Supply
PHM of produce include proper handling,
packaging, storage, transportation and marketing,
which can increase shelf-life and reduce the
overall spoilage.
PHM possess modern technologies like refrigerated
storage, controlled and modified storage, and
irradiation, which also increase the shelf-life
of produce appreciably.
PHM can save the produced food from spoilage for
consumption and thereby help in increasing the
food availability.
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Scope of PHM
Increase Food Supply
Nutritional Security
Several essential nutrition are required for
human health.
Fruits and vegetables are the rich source of
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fibres.
The deficiency of vitamins may lead to many
diseases such as scurvy, beriberi, night
blindness, etc.
PHM saves several minerals and vitamins from
being lost, and thus PHM is the only solution for
nutritional security of growing population of the
country.
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Scope of PHM
Employment Generation
PHM activities such as harvesting, sorting,
grading, and packaging can provide gainful
employment to unskilled and skilled people
Processing of surplus and cull fruits and
vegetables also generate employment.
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Scope of PHM
Value Addition
The primary and minimally processing add value to
the fresh produce.
Inedible plant parts, if utilized gainfully, can
produce value added products.
Surplus and cull fruits and vegetables can be
processed into several value added products.
PHM and processing can add value to the fresh as
well processed products and the producer or
farmer can get good return of his produce.
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
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Scope of PHM
Export Earning
A large number of fruits and vegetables are
traded in the world market.
Fruits such as mango, grapes, banana, litchi,
sapota, ber, pomegranate and vegetables like
onion, potato, and green vegetables have good
export market potential.
Our country is exporting grapes, mango and other
green vegetables.
It is mainly because of good post harvest
management practices, quality maintenance
throughout the marketing channel and basic
infrastructure of export.
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Scope of PHM
Rural Industrialisation
Post harvest management and processing is
essential for horticultural industry.
PHM can take care of gluts and all possible
wastage during distributional channel.
Development of processing industry and packaging
house units in the rural areas will help in rural
industrialization as well.
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Beneficial to Producers and Consumers
Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
(PHM)
There is always abundance of produce at the
production site but scarcity at the consumption
place.
Growers sale their produce at the lowest minimum
price due to fear of spoilage.
Middleman in the market takes heavy share, which
increases the price of commodity many times.
Consumer purchases the same commodities at a very
high price in the cities.
Training to growers in PHM activities can
overcome this situation.
Hence, growers will get a good price for their
produce and consumers will have to pay a
reasonable low price.
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Scope and Importance of Post Harvest Management
(PHM)
Fruits and vegetables are perishable in nature.
Growers do not have proper infrastructure
facilities for handling or storage of produce in
growing areas.
Proper training of farmers in appropriate PHM
activities will help in avoiding the glut of
fruits and vegetables, reduce losses due to
spoilage, add value to the fresh and processed
products.
Hence, good income to the growers and better
nutritious produce to consumer at a reasonable
price.
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