Entrepreneurs And Freshers Fresh produce & Post Harvest Technology

Principles OF Fresh Produce Business

Post harvest / supply chain (cool chain) / strategies for more fruitful fresh produce business / successful concepts in green chain / opportunities for entrepreneurs and farmer communities / strategies for the government / quality and safety of fresh produce –practical approach.

• Why fruits and vegetables (economic value, loss of value – post harvest, storage, distribution, rejections cause loss of inputs – areas of concern physiological and pathological)
• Why post harvest (5-50% not consumed – pitiful fact)
• Why cool chain or green chain (to preserve value / freshness / to get more customer loyalty = quality , quantity)
• Why action programme (capacity building, investing in new concepts)
• Why objectives? (train the trainers – safety , quality, grower, hauler, retail)
• All the above – manual on all the above. special package through
• Ppts, reference docs, handouts, Internet education
• Designing the teams, structure, productive operations, mechanisation, display, customer relations, branding,
• Pace – food safety practices, introduction
• Government general business issues, licence, categories, natural resource permits, pesticide licensing, premises control

Setup and Backward Integration

• Processing centre Setup
• Cold storage management, pre cooling and blast chilling
• Product Management
• Equipment for movement, grading, sorting, packing
• Transport and Control atmosphere
• Product procurement
• Cooperative and corporate farming, enhanced relation with farmer

Green Quality Management

• What the GQM concepts
• Benefits of TQM
• GQM culture and values.
• Barriers / issues in implementation
• Forecasting the value

Quality Chains, Internal and External Customers

• Design and customer input.
• Customers perception of Quality and identifying customer requirements
• Quality Chains concept
• Examples of Quality Chains in relevant organisations

Certification & Exports Basics

• Phytosanitory Certifications
• APEDA
• GAP
• EUROGAP
• BRC
• Importer specification
• Transport (Air freight & Sea freight)