5 Questions
What are the activities included in post-harvest activities?
Harvesting, handling, storage, processing, packaging, transportation, and marketing
Why are post-harvest losses of horticultural produce a major problem?
They represent a waste of human effort, farm inputs, livelihoods, investments, and scarce resources
Why are post-harvest losses for horticultural produce difficult to measure?
Use of average loss figures is often misleading
What are the on-farm causes of post-harvest losses?
Factors affecting post-harvest losses, from the soil in which the crop is grown to the handling of produce when it reaches the shop
When might post-harvest losses be 100%?
When there is a price collapse and it would cost the farmer more to harvest and market the produce than to plough it back into the ground
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