Facts
• Annually over 2.6 billion Tons of Food Grains, Pulses & Oil Seeds are grown and stored along the Chain from producers to Consumers, treating with harmful chemicals to protect the food grains from infestation.
• In the absence of scientific storage facility we loose almost 30% of our produce, that’s about one third of food grains produced is lost.
• As per estimates globally we lose nearly 500 million tons of food grains every year because of infestation, fungal attack & rotting.
• Which results in excess seeding of nearly 250 million hectares of land every year.
• That is nearly 20% more food grains would have to be produced to cater to the demand every year.
Post Harvest Storage Methods & Storage Problems
Conventional Warehouse , Steel Silod , Molds , Infection , Aromas Loss , Oxidation , Rodents , Birds
Issues of storage for farmer
- No scientific storage facility available
- Distress sale of produce
- Loss of produce because High cost of fumigation
- Loss of of Quantity & Quality
- High storage cost of good warehouse
Issue of Storage for Buffer Stock
- Loss of stock because of infestation
- Use of harmful chemicals
- High cost of fumigation
- Loss of Quantity & Quality (Contamination & Odor)
- Manpower cost of fumigation