as per the study conducted by M/s Hansa Research Group, Mumbai
The Government has got a study done on ‘Assessment of Quantitative Harvest and Post-Harvest Losses of Major Crops and Commodities in India’ by ICAR – Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana. The study was commissioned in 2012 and the final report submitted on 31.03.2015. The study has estimated that annual value of harvest and post-harvest losses of major agricultural produces at national level was of the order of Rs 92,651 crore calculated using production data of 2012-13 at 2014 wholesale prices. The percentage of post-harvest losses as assessed by the study areas under:
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