Reducing Post-harvest Losses in India
Farmer-Level Interventions and Grain Management Strategies
About the Book
This book focuses on the estimation of post-harvest losses and factors contributing to these losses at farmer level. This study goes beyond the quantitative loss and puts forward a pioneering effort to estimate both quantitative and qualitative losses for paddy in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Punjab, and for wheat, maize, and soybean in Madhya Pradesh based on primary survey of 1200 farmers. At farmer level, mechanization and use of proper storage techniques are crucial to reduce losses. However, it is also imperative for the government to reduce losses in the grain management at the centre and state levels, during the process of procurement, storage, and public distribution system. In this regard, the present study also analyses factors driving these losses in the food grain management system in India through secondary data analysis and case studies of different storage types. The book also traces the role of private investment in storage infrastructure to reduce post-harvest losses in India.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
<p><strong>Dr. Ashok Gulati</strong> is currently Distinguished Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this, he was a Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Government of India (2011-14). He is currently a Member of the Eleventh Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and an Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) and Godrej Agrovet Limited. He has 18 books to his credit on Indian and Asian griculture, besides numerous research papers in national and international Journals. He did his M.A. and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics. </p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Raya Das</strong> is currently Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). She has published peer reviewed journals on public policy, credit, land relation, agriculture market, and livelihood sustainability of farmers. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “Agrarian Dynamics and Organisation of production in West Bengal” from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her M.Phil. dissertation on “Variation in Productivity, Farm Income and Subsistence among Agricultural Households in India: A Study Based on Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers 2012- 13”.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr. Alex Winter-Nelson</strong> is a professor emeritus at College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His book, The Atlas of World Hunger was the winner of the 2011 James M, Blaut Innovative Publication Award from the Association of American Geographers. He has been consultant for The World Bank, The Nile Basin Initiative, The International Food Policy Research Institute, and The International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics. He did his Ph.D. from Stanford University Food Research Institute.</p>
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