post harvest in Agricultureby | 27-01-2015 00:55 |
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Being a student of agriculture today i will like to discuss about the agriculture and food security. Not only producing in the field is entirely important for feeding of the population, conserving the production is also important for the prospects. In the produced area, only 10% is consumed not the rest, the production should be conserved and should be transported to the deficit area and there lies the significance of the post harvest of the agriculture. In my country, production is higher in eastern part and lack of food is seen in the western part of nepal with insufficient technologies to transport and lack of expertise in the proper post harvest technologies, unconsumed food is being wasted in the over productive area and hunger prevails in the low production area. Recently i got to involve in the research in the M. Sc horticulture thesis which is being carried out in the post harvest technology. with cauliflower used as commodity, different packaging plastics are being used to increase the post harvest life of the cauliflower. After opening the plastics, which are of different function, it has been primarily observed that freshness of the plastic covered commodity is as fresh as from the plant and it has also been found to increase in the sweetness or carbohydrate content of the commodity. with preliminary result, it has been justified that with development of proper post harvest technologies food can be travelled long distance with better quality, food security cannot be solve alone by the increasing the production as the land are already giving the maximum production, increasing the post harvest period of foods and decreasing waste could help more. thank you. expecting your valuable comments. |
