Last month, in the middle of the Christmas festive season, the price of vegetables in Colombo and other urban areas skyrocketed. The reason was that the government introduced a regulation requiring the transport of all vegetables to be carried out in plastic or wooden crates rather than gunny bags (hardly ever used nowadays) or polythene sacks.
The regulation was introduced in order to reduce the incidence of spoilage in transport and handling and was expected to benefit farmers and vendors in the long run. This followed on from studies which showed that about half all post-harvest losses, which ranged from 16 percent (ladies fingers) to 41 percent (cabbages and leeks), in the steps in the marketing chain between the
The sources of post-harvest loss in the collection and transportation stages were identified as exposure to sun, rough handling during loading and unloading, transportation in poly sacks, tight packing and overloading, compression damage during packing and stacking, damage due to vibration and heat build up during transportation.
Read full article: http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/05/fea02.asp
The regulation was introduced in order to reduce the incidence of spoilage in transport and handling and was expected to benefit farmers and vendors in the long run. This followed on from studies which showed that about half all post-harvest losses, which ranged from 16 percent (ladies fingers) to 41 percent (cabbages and leeks), in the steps in the marketing chain between the
The sources of post-harvest loss in the collection and transportation stages were identified as exposure to sun, rough handling during loading and unloading, transportation in poly sacks, tight packing and overloading, compression damage during packing and stacking, damage due to vibration and heat build up during transportation.
Read full article: http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/05/fea02.asp
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