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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 10-12°C 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
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The lot of produce must not contain damaged or diseased units, and
containers must be well ventilated and strong enough to withstand
stacking.
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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, NGO’s and Government
agencies on Field Assessment of Quality (FAQ) crops for export. Integration
of horticulture with agro rural tourism.
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