Reducing post-harvest damage

At an international symposium in Brazil in 1993, postharvest experts from the public and private sectors from many countries discussed how to avoid post-harvest losses by applying and disseminating alternative technologies and introducing appropriate facilities for grain handling, drying and storage, as well as focusing on ways of extending the benefits to medium and small scale farmers.

1. Maintaining quality controls and stockpiles

1. Studying post-harvest diseases of crops
2. Preventing prepared food spoilage in storage
3. Preserving harvested foods

1. Securing food supplies
2. Increasing agricultural production

1. Studying illnesses due to contaminated foods

1. Spoilage of agricultural products
2. Prepared food spoilage in storage
3. Pests and diseases of grain sorghum
4. Inadequate food storage facilities
5. Food-borne diseases
6. Food grain spoilage

1. Damage