Around 30-35 % of fruits and vegetables are wasted each year due to lack of (Transport, storage, packaging, transformation).
Around 30-35 % of fruits and vegetables are wasted each year due to lack of post-harvest facilities and the absence of linkages to the processors and markets, according to Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP).
india produces nearly 300 million tons of food products which includes grain, cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, poultry and marine products. But most of them are marketed fresh in and around the producing centre.
Although India was one of the largest producers of agricultural raw materials, the food industry itself was extremely underdeveloped as less than 2% of fruit and vegetable production.
India is nevertheless one of the most important producers of farm produces to the world and will have to invest to fight this established fact.
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