TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Meaning and scope
CHAPTER TWO
Development or internet based
agricultural marking information
CHAPTER THREE
Making marketing information relevant to
farmers.
CHAPTER FOUR
Need for growth or marketing infrastructure
CHAPTER FOUR
Need for growth or marketing
infrastructure
CHAPTER FIVE
Establishment of a world food
preservation centre.
References.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
PROSPECTS
FOR CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
Prospects for co-operative marketing or agricultural
produce: This could mean the possibility of like hood of some future event
occurring in Agricultural marketing sector. The national commission on
Agriculture defended agricultural marketing as a process which starts with
decision to product a saloable farm commodity and it involves all aspects of
market structure of system, both
functional and institutional based on technical and economic considerations and
includes pre and post- harvest operations, assembling, grading, storage,
transportation and distribution. 4ps” the acronym for once, product, place and promotion is the cort principle or
marketing. There are several challenges involves in marketing or agricultural
produce. There is limited access to its
market information, literacy level among the farmers is low, multiple
channels of distribution that cuts away the pockets of both farmer and
consumers. The government funding of farmers is still at nacont stage and most
of its small farmers is still depend on the local money leaders who are coaches
and charge nigh ratio or interest there are too many vultures that cot away the
benefit of that the farmers are supposed to get. Although we say that
technology have improved but it has not gone to the rural areas as it is
confined to urban area s alone. There are several loopholes in the present
legislation and there is no organized and legislation and there is no organized
and regulated marketing system for marketing the Agricultural produce. The
farmers have force so many hardships and have to overcome several hardship to
got fair and just price for their sweat. In this work we cooked at now
dimension of which in this work we looked at now dimension of which
Agricultural marketing is going to take it near future- we also cooked at
Agricultural market reform. There are certain measures that can be affected to
bring out the reforms in agricultural marketing so as to ensure just and fair
price for the farming community.
* provide loans to the farmers at low
rate or interest so that they will be feed from the clutches or local money
lenders who squeeze item. It is said that farmers born into debt, love indebt
and dies in debt. Right from the beginning of like, the poor farmer approach
money under for investing into
cultivation who levies very high rate or interest and who takes away the
maximum amount of the share from the producer in case if the crops fail and due
to natural calamities it on the
situation would be worst as the farmer is not in position to pay his loans. And
ultimately he is forced to sell the land at throw away price to the money
lender.
* It is essential to provide subsidized
power supply and loans to the farmer as the expenses towards power consumption
takes considerable amount of investments.
* Generate a new distribution network
that connect the farmers directly to the consumers to get maximum returns as
the present channel or distribution involves multiple mediatory who take away
the major portion or profits which otherwise the farmer is supposed to get.
* At the village level there should be
counseling centres for farmers about the worth or their stocks, so that they
can get fair price the crucial role or non-governmental organization (NGOS) is
nodding in the cent
* The existing legislations are outdated
and are not in tune with the changing trends and technological inventions and
the same need to be updated forthwith.
* The retail revolution has brought
several changes in the retail sector where the retail giants buy in build
directly from the suppliers and sell to the consumers directly and in the
process they pass the benefits to the consumers as well. In the past the
consumers were paying more for less as there where many channels of
distribution system and now the consumers pay less for more.
* Government should levy single entry
tax instead or levying multiple entry taxes either directly or indirectly for the
transactions and activities that are involved in agricultural marketing such as
transportation, processing, grading etc. as it world benefit boot farmers and
consumers directly.
There is no doubt that in any
marketing there is a motive towards profit involved and at the same time at
marketing is to be based on certain values, principles and philosophies such as
offering just and fair prices to the farmers who toil hard. Bringing necessary
reform coupled with proper price discovery mechanism through regulated market
system will help streamlined and strengthen the agricultural marketing. In
order to avoid isolation of small seafarers from the benefits of agricultural
produce they need to be integrated and informed with the market knowledge like
fluctuations demand and supply concepts which are the core of economy marketing
or agriculture can be made effective. It is looked from the collective and
integrative efforts from various quarters by addressing to farmers, middlemen,
researchers and administrators. It is high time we brought out significant
strategies in agricultural marketing with innovative and creative approach as
to bring fruits or labour to the farmers.
CHAPTER TWO
DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNET BASE
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING INFORMATION
Marketing information is an
important facilitating function in the Agricultural marketing system. It
facilitates marketing decisions, regulate the competitive market process and
simplifies marketing mechanisms, regular, timely and reliable market
information is needed by farmers in planning productions in arriving at optimal
trading decision. Marketing information system
Lother wise known as market intelligence system, market information
services are information system used in gathering, analyzing and disseminating
information about prices and other information relevant to farmers animals
rarer traders, processors and others involved in handling agricultural
products. Market information systems play an important rock in
agro-industrialization and food supply chains. With the advanced or information
and communization technologies for development. In developing countries, market
information initiatives are often part of broader interventions development
strategy that many environment are actively engaged in. it’s commonly understood
that long transaction chains, lack or transparency and insufficient access to
markets for products has perpetuated law incomes in predominantly agrarian
Economies. The food and agriculture organization has united focused on
agricultural marketing support, including through development of market
information. Internet provides a completely new dimension to information
utilization. Free electronic text, images, software and many other forms of
data are increasing the number, volume, diversity, as well as the number of
server those internet means free access, and has been, up till now operated by
the internet principle, that is fundamentally different form conventional
commercial data base distribution. Despite a growing awareness and attempt to
commercialize the services and products within the internet, the market
information has been regarded as a public good in our country because of
presence of large number or small and marginal farmers who are unable to pay
for information. Exploring on the internet for the farmers would provide wider
marketing opportunities and social acceptance for it is now media, a derivation
from earlier needs promotion. Basic functions of transfer or knowledge changing
attitude, behaviour and skills to the farmers or other media needs to be
incorporated in the Newmdia-internet, so that it takes over traditional media
in the interest or the farmers. Professor Esuke Naito or National center
presence information system, Tokyo, Jupan defines information as “a dynamic
process in which a solution to a problem is gained by consolidating knowledge
recorded and stored on paper or any digital media is only in a static state
without any action for solution. Without decision making and the corresponding
action following a solution, it’s the recorded knowledge and data gathering are
not completely utilized. The agricultural marketing information service
envisages utilization or recorded knowledge for solution-making it an
information. The distinct advantage for electronic media viz. instant access,
remote access, simultaneous access and high speed search over volume or
available knowledge form part or the internet based marketing information source
envisage to be developed. A large amount of data with more accuracy can stored
in computer, analyzed and retrieved within shortest possible time. Agric
marketing will ensure dissemination or data through network to any distance
with the help or communication devices for the benefit of farmers, traders,
consumers etc. the improved communication system will enable the producer to
know about probable market where they can dispose or the their produce more
profitably. The traders and consumers can also derive maximum advantage out of
their purchase at low communication cost the modernization of market information
system, will lead to the efficiency in the markets and increased participation
or the farmers. Agricultural marketing in the country and in the whole wide
world is witnessing major charges owing to liberalization and globalization or
markets. This context., agriculture has to be market driven, more cost
effective, competitive innovative and responsive to high tech and IT
applications. There is heed to build capacity or each the internet based
information system aims at providing “single widen” service, catering to diversified
demands of information. It will facilitate information sharing and development
of data infrastructure for enterprises. Industry, farmers, policy market,
academic organizations, government agencies etc. with development or information
and data infrastructure market places will perform role of information service
providers to expand markets. It will encourage information exchanges and discrimination
for its benefit of farmers and other market participants as well. Online marketing
information service will connect distant markets and promote its efficient
marketing in time to come.
CHAPTER THREE
MARKING MARKETING INFORMATION SERVICES RELEVANT TO FARMERS
There are many ways to make
information Relevant to farmers. In work research we deducted some of its
relevant criteria to be-Accuracy, availability applicability and analysis and
its four “AS” of market information. If market information are to have any
meaning for farmers the information they provide must be accurate and farmers
must understand to which product, quality etc the prices refer-further, even if
prices are completely accurate, they are of much use if they are only available
to farmers too late for them to use effectively. We will spend most of it is
presentation looking at ways of quickly disseminating information to farmers,
boot now and in the future as the possibilities offered by new technology open
up thirdly, farmers need to be able to apply the accurate information made available to them.
It is requires knowledge of how to convert prices they receive from market
information system inter realistic process at their local market or farm gate.
Finally, farmers needs long-term data, which has been analyzed in such a way
that they can make decisions about whom to plant and harvest and what new crops
to diversity into.
(i) Accuracy
Providing accurate information
requires attention to a lot or different issue. FAO has a publication on how to
set up on mis and this good of the beneficiary group viz. farmers, marketing activities
undertaking/utilizing marketing research to educate and train farmers in Good
marketing practices and providing for development or service appropriate to
local requirements to transform information emanating from various sources in a
simple and practically useful manner is considered need of the hour.
OBJECTIVE OF NET WORKING
The marketing information network,
besides collecting and disseminating market information on market arrivals and
prices, focuses on collection dissemination or diversities market related
information to promote good agricultural marketing practices to help farmers in
better price realization out of the sale or their produce. The objectives or
the system are to
* Establish a nation wide market
information network for speed by collection and dissemination or market
information and data for its efficient and timely utilization.
* Facilitate collection and
discrimination of information related to better price realization but the
farmers. This covers (a) market related information charges, transactional
methods, such as market functionaries, market laws, etc (b) price related information
such as minimum, maximum and model price of varieties and qualities transacted,
total arrival and dispatches with destination, marketing costs and margins, etc
(C) infrastructure related information comprising of facilities and services
available to farmers with regard to storage and warehousing, cold storage,
direct markets, grading, rehandling and repackaging, labouring, sanitary and
phyto-sanitary requirements, pledge finance, marketing credits and new
opportunities available in respect or better marketing.
(iii) Sensitize and orient farmers to respond to
now challenges in agricultural marketing by using IT as a vehicle or extension.
(iv) Improve efficiency in agricultural
marketing through regular training and extension for reaching the region
specific farmers in their own language.
(v) Provide assistance for marketing research
to generate marketing information for its dissemination to farmers and other
marketing functionaries at grass root level to create and ambiance or good
marketing practices in the country work. Some product annual reports but it is
difficult for formers to use such reports without assistant. If market
information services are to be relevant they must provide information on a
consistent basis. Market information is not something that can be broadcast for
a week and than forgotten about for a
month. It has to be broadcast every
day, every other day or every week without fail. Governments should not
initiate market information services unless they are sure that resources will
be available to maintain the service. In most countries government support is
likely to be essential for many years to come. In some cases farmers and traders
can be charged information. However, most small farmers would have trouble in
paying and anyway, it is difficult to see how they could be changed if the arm
is to get information to them as quickly as possible (changes could be made for
a news water but it would take time torech the subscribers. Radios is quick,
but then it is not possible to change the uses). Consideration could be given
to a two-tier system. Basic information could be provided by radio for free to
small farmers. Traders and large farmers requiring more detailed information
could be supported, for a fee, with more detailed information by e-mail or
phone. Other revenue sources would include the provision of consultancy
services, either adhol market research services or services based on analysis
of the detailed information already available to its market information
services.
CHAPTER FOUR
NEED FOR GROWTH OF MARKETING
INFRASTRUCTURE
Marketing
infrastructure is the most important not only for the performance or various
marketing functions and for expansion or the size of market but also for
transfer of appropriate price signals leading to improved marketing efficiency.
The projection production and marketable surplus or farm produce show that the
volume or the commodities to be handed will be quite large. Government
organized marketing or agriculture in the country throughout the network or
regulated market established under the provisions or the agricultural product
market act enacted by the states and union territories. As on 31/3/2001 the
markets covered under regulation is 7177. In addition here are 27924 rural
periodical market have been brought under the ambit or the regulation. The
regulated markets have helped in mitigating the market. Handicaps of producer’s
sellers. These have also provided physical facilities and institutional
environment to the whole sellers commission agents. Traders and effort
functionaries for conducting activities. It has ensilaged that these regulated
markets will provide facilities and services which would attract the farmers
and buyers creating competitive trade environment thereby offering best of
prices to** Of prices to
the producers sellers. Studies of regulated markets shows that they have
achieved limited success in providing need based facilities and services
conducive to achieving greater marketing efficiency. Most of the market lack
requisite facilities for handing the produce arriving in the yard. Rural
markets in general and tribal hats in particular remained out of the general and
tribal hats in particular remained out of the ambit or the development. Over a
period of time those markets have acquired the status of institution with the
control and restructions providing no
help in direct marketing organized retaining smooth supply or raw material to
agro-processing unit competitive trading formation exchange adoption are
innovative marketing system and technologies etc, as has envisaged under the
provision of the Act (chapter one conduct of business power and duties or the
market committee) monolopolistic tendencies and practices have prevented
development or free and competitive trade in primary market future market (or secondary markets) use of new
tools and techniques in pre-harvest management and post harvest management in
handling exports agro based industries have housing etc. the prominent
activities like grading standardization scientific storage linked with finance
search for suitable markets for excess or marketable surplus search for
suitable markets for excess or marketable surplus education or farmers in pre
and post harvest management and facilities in the markets have become secondary
activities. Marketing development funds have been spheroid to public larger
account by the state authorities adversely affecting modernization and
infrastructure adversely affecting modernization and infrastructure development
vital for operational efficiency. The world wide governments have recognized
the importance are liberalizing agricultural markets. In South Africa
Agricultural marketing is changed form controlled marketing to free system. In
Holland the growers co-operatives are acquiring now companies a specialized in
commodity export and import to achieve high degree or professionalism
marketing. The over increasing production spread of latest technologies
changing socioeconomic environment increasing demand for downsizing its
distribution chain reducing the marketing margins between the producer and the
ultimate consumers challenges emerging act or period required a vibrant dynamic
and assimilative marketing structure and system. In order to have vibrant
competitive marketing systems the government had to being about reforms in
existing policies rules and regulations with a view to remove an legal
provision inhibiting free market access opportunities provided by
liberalization. Some or the legal provision inhibiting development or vibrant
dynamic and assimilative marketing structure and systems is the Agricultural
produce marketing (regulation) Act. The export committee on strengthening and
Development of Agricultural marketing suggested various reforms in etc
statutory arrangements relating to agricultural marketing as well as policies
and programmes for development and strengthening or agricultural marketing with
a specific reference to needed investment package or a incentive easy and
adequate marketing credit. This is committee also recommended a review of the
existing legal frame work removal of restrictive provisions to promote
competitive marketing structure to promote direct marketing by farmers to
improve price realization to encourage forward and future trading to reduce
price risk to induce increase the flow or funds to agricultural sector to
support pledge financing by treating it as a direct priority sector lending and
to promote market led of extension to use of information technology for
improving marketing services to farmers. A inter ministerial task force under
the chairmanship of additional secretary department of Agricultural and
co-operation government of India deliberated on those recommendations and
identified mine areas. To work act action plane nine inter ministerial
subgroups were constituted. The subgroups on legal reforms in Agricultural
marketing under the chairmanship or the joint secretary (marketing). The specific
areas identified for reforms in the state Agricultural produce marketing
regulations Acts (Apme) are
(a) Promotion of integrated markets in
private/co-operative sector. Under the existing Act, it is the state government
who are alone empowered to initiate the process or setting up a market for
certain communities to be regulated for a defined area. In which deregulation
is to be enforced under the provision (under the chapter-establishment of
markets) the process of initiation of a market the service providers of
Agricultural marketing do not have any role. This the service providers and/or
any other individual or body of individuals can not take initiatives for
evaluation of viability and feasibility for setting up of a well developed
market with amenities and facilities required at a competitive cost. A ball has
been set rolling in Karnaka by providing additional chapter (xiii-A) in the
Karnataka Agricultural produce marketing (regulation) Act 1966 to provide for
the establishment of national in targeted produce market owned and managed by
the NDDB for the marketing of fruits vegetables and flowers. It is high time
that all other states follow selite by amending the Apme Act in their
respective states for providing establishment of alternate marketing structures
in the shape of natural integrated produce market to be owned and managed in the
private sector or co-operatives sectors or farmers self help groups farmer
association privates entrepreneurs or joint ventures. The service provider may
be allowed to cover and collect services charge from users who may be the
producers. Sellers or from the market users. The integrated market
infrastructure service will in addition to the physical infrastructure include:
(i) Assembling
(ii) Cleaning sorting grading packaging and
quality certification
(iii) Storage and finance
(iv) Transport
(v) Retailing and wholesaling
(vi) E-Trading
(vii) Warehousing and pledge financing
(viii) Value addition
(ix) Market information exchange service
DIRECT MARKETING
The direct marketing enables farmers
to meet the specific demands of wholesalers or traders from the farmers
inventory of graded and certified produce on one hand and of consumers based on
consumers preference on its inter hand helps the farmers to dynamically take advantage
of favourable prices reduce marketing list and this their net margins. It is
encourages farmers to under take cleaning sorting grading and quality marketing
at farm gate. This will obviate the need to have the produce to the regulated
markets which are not necessarily equipped with all required services and
facilities affecting the marketing efficiency adversely. It is reported that
the consumers price declined by the 20to 30% and producers received the price
rise by 10 to 20% in South Korea as a consequence or expansion or direct
marketing of Agricultural products. This model has been experimented in Punjab
and Haryana (Api Mandis). Consorted effort have not been made to promote the
direct serves by the farmers to consumers or retailer without involving any
intermediary in between. In a country like ours there art larger numbers or
places where such markets could come up in organized sectors with private
investment and can be developed in tuned with the time for forward and backward
unkages.
- Contract farming
Contract farming may be defined as
an agreement between processing and 1 or marketing firms for production support
at production support at pre determined prices. This stipulates a commitment on
the part of the farmers to provide a specific commodity in terms of quality and
quantity as determined by purchaser and commitment on its part or company to
support the farmer for contract farming is becoming poplar in recent years and there
are number of success stores. On a daily basis, Indonesia is one good example
of this, but we are sure there are others. Where fates exist phones should not be used as there is risk of prices
being misheard where email exists this should normally be used in
preference to faxes, to avoid the need
for data to be entered on computer twice, once in the provinces and once in HQ.
In some circumstances, however it may be quicker for data collector to write
prices on a price collection form and than fax this to the local radio station
and HQ rather than going to the trouble of first entering the information on a
computer. Of course, there is no need to collect data on a daily basis and
process. It rapidly if you have not made arrangements to broadcast the
information. In Bangladesh, for example only a few grain prices are broadcast
on the radio, and then irregularly. Here in Nigeria its situation is even horst
as no agreement has been reached for the broadcast or market prices. In terms
of getting information to farmers to enable item to make quick commercial
decisions, the printed media is generally unsuitable. Limiting dissemination to
news papers and magazines is a major weakness or several mis around the world,
including as we have already noted.
APPLICABILITY
Prior to getting up an mis, or
revising an existing one, it is necessary to carry out a detailed examination
or how the marketing system functions and to fully identify the needs of
farmers. This was well done by GT2 when it assisted Indonesia in the 1980s. so
market information services need to try to give farmers information form
markets most applicable to them. However, it is not always possible, for reason
of cost and logistics. Where it is only possible to give prices for large city
where market Hon farmer have to be helped to understand how to translate these
prices into something applicable to them. That is, they need assistance in
understanding the issues we raised at the beginning of it is presentation,
concerning variety, quality, type of transaction etc. they also need to
understand the costs incurred to between their farm gate and the city market
such information can be conveyed to item through radio broadcasts and through extension workers. In
the past, extension workers have rarely been trained about marketing but extension
services are now beginning to recognize the importance of their staff being
able to advise on marketing and part harvest handing as well as on production
issues.
ANALYSIS
Some market information are good at
providing timely price information to farmers, few, if any, are good at
providing analysis or time serous of such information to enable farmers to plan
off-season production, to decide whether to diversity or to decide whether to
sort in the expectation off higher prices later in the your market information
higher prices later in the year. Market information services generally lack
both the analytical skills and time to do such into considerable details about
how to ensure prices are accurate. Mis need to ensure that there is agreement
on the variety or each product. Mis in each country need to agreed on quality
definitions and consistently apply them throughout the country. Undermost you would have situation where farmers who have poor
quality Agricultural product to sell would near that the price was high in a
particular market only to find that the price quoted by the this has for the
top quality, FAO recommends that the concept or “Fair average quality should be
used as the basis for price reporting. The type of transaction can be confusing
for farmers and often probably, for the price collectors themselves. In one
market there may be several types of transaction farmer solving to retailer,
retailer selling to consumer, not to mention the role or commission agents in
some countries. Which price does this report
on? There are two main criteria to be adopted: which price is cast to
collect. Whatever transaction price issued, it must be used consistently. And
farmers must understand that is the transaction type referred to. It is not
always easy to get the actual transaction price and must admit that collection of prices in
markets is a hard job. You cannot just go and ask the trader, because often the
price paid is subjected to negotiation and the price the trader quotes may not
be the final price. And if prices vary, how the collector does arrives at a
suitable “average” to broadcast on the radio. Those are important issues, too
complex to go into here, but market information services do need to develop
clear guidelines to give to their convectors.
ii. Availability
For information to be available and
timely it should prefer a big reach farmers on the same day on which it is
collected, or early on the following morning. This means efficient market
information services operation is essential and the local media must be willing
to co-operate. Efficiency market information services dissemination usually
involves price collection early in the day rapid completion of price.
Collection forms and speedy distribution to the relevant media. For crops that
change price rapidly, such as vegetables, prices should I deally be collected
and disseminated the contract farming needs to be further developed after
identifying areas commodities and markets for market oriented and demand driven
production planning. However while providing for it is system alternate
marketing under the Apml Act is necessary to draft any appropriate regulation
separately for ensuring definition of forms and conditions of the agreement
keeping in view the objectives.
CHAPTER FIVE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A WORLD FOOD PRESERVATION CENTER
A world food preservation centre
(WPPC) is proposed in response to a pending civilization threatening food
shortage and our limited ability to adequately increase food production. Some
estimates put losses of food in developing countries after it is produced and
before it is consumed 50%. Those losses are particularly threatening to
individuals and farmers who are living in the midst of food insecurity.
Although numerous organizations have attempted to address it is problem world divide, the magnitude of the effort has
not came close to the enormity of the problem most or those programs are also short term and require
continuums input by post harvest specialists form developed countries in order
to be sustainable. A critical need exists for a substantial and sustainable
worldwide program that can significantly reduce losses and waste or food in
developing countries. The worldwide of presentation center proposed here meets
it is need by educating young scientist in developing countries about
low-input, appropriate technologies especially for preserving food post
harvest. It also conducts research on post harvest technologies especially
suited for application in developing countries such as biological control,
solar refrigeration, and co-ordinated
transport and marketing schemes that support and sustain the local production
of food commodities. This is also one of the basic prospect of which
Agricultural co-operative marking ought to adopt to enhance marketing
efficiency.
- Increasing our food supply producing
post harvest losses.
Post harvest losses of food arguably
pose our greatest vulnerability to food security worldivide. Estimates of
postharvest losses of food are highly variable in developed countries post
harvest losses and waste or food have been estimated to be from 10 to 60%. In
developing countries these loses often run at 50% or more. A United Nations
food and Agriculture organization (FAO) study estimates that one third or the
food produced for human consumption is lost won divide a refer harvest. All
estimates are post harvest losses are probability conservative in that they do
not reflect the cumulative losses from all stages in the food pipeline from the
field to the fork. Although there is no agreement on the specific percentages
of post harvest losses, there is no doubt that these losses are enormous and
merit worldivide attention. Unfortunately, most or the resources directed
towards our post harvest problem have been used to study the problem rather it
an attack it. It is not to negative a number of highly effective programs that
have addressed it is problem in academia, the United Nations FAO, and
international laboratories. Kader has recently written a very comprehensive
review on post harvest education and extension efforts internationally and
fronted out opportunities for collaboration. The bosthaneost education
foundation is during an excellent job of developing and implementer post
harvest attention programs for farmers in developing countries
- The magnitude of the effort needs to
match the enormity of the problem.
Although considerable attention has been dram to the
enormity of food losses and waste due to post harvest sonage, limited number or
resource have been devoted to its solution. Although here are excellent extension
and educational programs that address postharvest losses encountered in
developing countries, this total effort does not approach the enormity of the
problem. Also, present programming in many cases are not sustainable since they
are dependent on at continual input form post harvest specialist in developed
countries will irregular and uncertain budget.
- Establishment
or a world food preservation center. In propose an initiative that can have a
major impact on reducing post harvest losses in developing countries worldivide
and that will not require a continuous input from post harvest specialist in
developed countries. It involves the establishment or a world food preservation
center that would educate young scientist in developing countries in adaptable
appropriate technologies for food preservation, and conduct post harvest
research that is especially society to sustain and support food production in
those countries. This concept has been received enthusiastically by young
scientists in developing countries who are motivated to solve their own
problem. The world food preservation center will educate native scientist form
developing countries and arm them wilt the latest technologies for food
preservation in their country. Such individuals would be able to return to their
country and develop self-sustaining educational and extension programs in their
own. These programs will continue to grow through the education received by
students of these native scientists. Farmers in those countries will be
educated through extension program demonstrating the latest technologies
adapted for their post harvest preservation needs. Given that many farmers in
developing countries live in the margins or food insecurity, a reduction in
post harvest lessos could have an immediate and significant impact o their
livelihoods. Once the goods of the world rood preservation centre are sown it
is expected that they will grow to have a major positive impact on the food
security of participating developing countries. Economic arguments for investing
in the development of postharvest research and extension program in developing
countries are compelling. There would be a tremendous return on investment. A
study in Nigeria determined that at least 50% of the production of purist and
vegetables is cost due to wastage and valve destruction. If the world food
preservation center is establish and young scientist exculpated, it will book
great benefit in upholding and minimizing food lost in every countries around
the glob. There is agreement no divide that post harvest food losses and waste
in developing countries are enormous problem we think and included that the
world food preservation center proposed here has the impetus and potential are having a major impact insuring it is
problems in a sustainable manner will positive impact on world hunger and
health and also enhance agricultural marketing, there by reduce poverty among
farmers. This is also one of the basic prospect in enhancing co-operative
marketing are agricultural product.
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MANAGEMENT AND OF TENSION.
FACULTY F AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
COURSE CODE: AEM
561
COURSE TITLE: AGRICULTURAL
MARKETING AND CO-OPERATIVE