Volume : 7, Issue : 5, May - 2018

AGRO WASTES AND EFFECTIVE AGRO WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOLLOWED IN INDIA

Dr. T. Balamurugan, Mr. S. Annamalai

Abstract :

<p style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;&#10;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%;background:white"><span lang="EN-IN">About 72 percent of the fruit and vegetable production in India goes waste because of lack of proper retailing and adequate storage capacity, an agriculture ministry official said here on Monday.The production of vegetables in India is next only to China. The vegetable and fruit production contributes more than 30 percent of the agriculture GDP. The crop diversification has led to rise in horticulture production, which has reached 185.2 billion tonnes last year.</span></p> <p style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;&#10;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%;background:white"><span lang="EN-IN">But the real challenge starts after the production. More than 72 percent of the vegetable and fruits are wasted in the absence of proper retailing. The sector is constrained by widespread fragmentation in the supply chain, low productivity levels, and huge post harvest losses arising out of inadequate storage, cold chain and transport infrastructure, logistics and supply chain management. Only organised and traditional retailing will ultimately drive the growth of the fruits and vegetable sector in the country. Despite different types of fruits and vegetables grown, India‘s export of agricultural and food products was only 1.4 percent of the total global trade. Hence a study is made to find out the effective waste management practices followed in India </span></p>