State of the Indian Farmer- A millennium study:- Post-Harvest Management - Gaikwad V R; Sambrani Shreekant; Prakash V; Kulkarni S D; Murari P (Academic Foundation New Delhi, 2004)
Keywords: Farm produce in Postharvest technology in India. -- Farm produce in India. -- Zonal economy and its implications for post-harvest management -- Post harvest management practices in India- structural policy and technological imperatives : Value added possibly through contract farming, collective efforts for mutual gain, food processing equipment manufacturing business- opportunities, technologies and equipment supply -- Agro- processing and storage- traditional and modern methods : Traditional food sector, production by masses and modernisation, present status of food processing in India, storage of foodgrains -- Quality standards and their regulations in foods : parameters for quality of food, hazard analysis and critical comtrol point (HACCP), quality standards for different food commodities and processed products -- Dynamics of post-harvest losses : Post harvest farmers losses, modernisation -- Sources of capital for agro-processing : Financing processing projects, institutions offering financing, rationalising taxes and duties, agri-business -- Sources of technology development for agro-processing, technologies and storage -- Gaps in information and data : post harvest losses, farm-industry linkages, market related, quality standards, technology research -- Concept of post-harvest management and value addition