Food Wastage

After agricultural produce is harvested, it requires a robust storage infrastructure in order to minimize any losses due to adverse weather conditions or in the process of transportation.

• The quantity of food which is wasted during the harvest and post-harvest processes in the country has increased over the past five years.
• The highest losses are observed in the case of fruits and vegetables (4.6%-15.9% of production in 2015), pulses (6.4%-8.4%) and oilseeds (5.3%-9.9%).

Some of the issues with the state of storage facilities in the country are inadequate capacity and poor conditions of storage. In cases where the storage capacity is found to be sufficient, the conditions of the godown are unfit, either because of the damp condition of the storage or because of its remote location.