{"id":124007,"date":"2021-08-06T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124007"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T10:34:49","slug":"csir-cmeri-post-harvest-technologies-for-cutting-down-huge-losses-in-agricultural-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-cmeri-post-harvest-technologies-for-cutting-down-huge-losses-in-agricultural-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR-CMERI Post-Harvest Technologies for cutting down Huge Losses in Agricultural Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1742771\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>CSIR-CMERI has developed various Post-Harvest Technologies to change the Agro-Economy of Nagaland and the North-Eastern States of India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is <\/strong><strong>Post-harvest technology?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-harvest technology is a technique\u00a0<strong>applied to agricultural produce after harvest<\/strong> for its protection, conservation, processing, packaging, etc to meet the food and nutritional requirements of the people in relation to their needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Post-harvest technology in North-Eastern India:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>North-Eastern states of India have tremendous Geographical Advantages in terms of Farming and Agriculture. There is an abundant potential in harvesting crops such as Tung and Ginger.<\/li>\n<li>However, despite this Tung Oil is imported from China to India for therapeutic purposes such as asthma and bowel problems such as diarrhoea and constipation<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, despite India being the largest producer of Ginger, there is wastage of almost 45% of Ginger.<\/li>\n<li>The reasons for these are the <strong>non-availability of suitable harvesting technology and poor skilling Initiatives<\/strong> in the region to equip the farmers with the latest advancements in Farm Mechanization technologies are two of the reasons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What is the solution to this problem?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>CSIR-CMERI has suggested a three-pronged approach to solving the problem of post-harvesting. The approach is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Increasing the Shelf-Life of the Harvest<\/li>\n<li>Skill Development of the Farming Community<\/li>\n<li>Reduction in Manual Handling of Toxic Crops.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Moreover, CSIR-CMERI has also developed various Post-Harvest Technologies such as <strong>Ginger Processing Technology<\/strong> and other technologies to solve the problem of non-availability of suitable harvesting technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? CSIR-CMERI has developed various Post-Harvest Technologies to change the Agro-Economy of Nagaland and the North-Eastern States of India. What is Post-harvest technology? Post-harvest technology is a technique\u00a0applied to agricultural produce after harvest for its protection, conservation, processing, packaging, etc to meet the food and nutritional requirements of the people&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/csir-cmeri-post-harvest-technologies-for-cutting-down-huge-losses-in-agricultural-produce\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSIR-CMERI Post-Harvest Technologies for cutting down Huge Losses in Agricultural Produce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[8920,5118,8763,8918,8919,8764],"class_list":["post-124007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-agro-economy","tag-csir-cmeri","tag-csir-cmeri-post","tag-e-technology-in-aid-of-farmer","tag-post-harvest-technologies","tag-post-harvest-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":3,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698332203},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}