Abstract
This paper offers a comprehensive account on the emerging concepts and practices in post-harvest management of horticultural crops. Post-harvest science and technology facilitates the industries to deliver safe, nutritious and fresh horticultural products to consumers at the end of the supply chain from farm to mouth. Substantial food wastages, which occur in the post-harvest period and such losses, could be reduced by improved post-harvest research, advancement, training and education. At present, many novel technologies and techniques are already being implemented to reduce the post-harvest losses which are witnessed at harvesting, during packing and transportation, in wholesale and retail markets, and during delays at various levels of handling. Improvements are also required to minimize the losses effectively and keep the process-cost low so that it could be applicable at commercial scale in a wide range of economic levels. By developing the practices utilized at post-harvest phase, the expenses accompanying for additional processing paces could also be reduced. Future studies should also be focused on incorporating various emerging technologies with post-harvest practices and appropriate improved practices should be adopted to an existing value chain and marketing system.
Highlights
The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) (2019) reports that annually about 1.3 billion metric tons of edible food products in the world are discarded from human consumption due to waste
This loss of food, about one third of the global annual consumable food production accounts to 2.6 trillion USD [1]. This is in a world where about 690 million people are acutely undernourished according to the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs
It is a prime need of the country to save at least a part of the food that goes into waste, rather than looking for converting waste to useful materials after letting the food products to be wasted
Summary
The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) (2019) reports that annually about 1.3 billion metric tons of edible food products in the world are discarded from human consumption due to waste. The significance of post-harvest technology focuses to satisfy the food requirements of the rising population through minimizing losses and producing more nutritious food items from raw commodities by proper processing [6,7]. 2. INFORMATION ANALYSIS 2.1 Emerging technologies Emerging advanced post-harvest technologies will allow all the actors in the perishable supply chain to minimize the losses, assure the optimum quality and extend the shelf life of the fresh produce. TTIs should be triggered and demonstrate a shift depending on the reproducible time temperature that is measured This transition must be permanent and preferably imitated or effortlessly connected to the degradation scale and residual shelf-life of the food. In top icing, crushed ice is manually or mechanically added to the produce, while ice and water mixtures are pumped into packages through vents or handholds in liquid icing [54]
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