Hidden harvest: a systems approach to postharvest technology

Spurgeon, D. (1976) Hidden harvest: a systems approach to postharvest technology. IDRC (Series) (062e). International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. ISBN 0889360812

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Abstract

The global food shortage that developed early in the 1970s has drawn attention forcibly to the whole world-wide process of food production, distribution, and consumption. Once the extent of the food crisis was realized, attempts were begun throughout the world to deal with it through increased production, stepped-up research, plans for stockpiling, and so on. One aspect of food supply that has received little attention to date is the fate of a food crop in developing countries from the time it is ready for harvest to the point where it reaches the consumer's table. What happens here is a whole series of events that, taken together, constitute a system a postharvest system. It is this system this booklet is about...

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Postharvest system, Food-grain industry, Threshing, Storing, Cereal grains, P21578
Author Affiliation:	Director, Publications Division, International Development Research Centre
Subjects:	Plant Production Plant Protection Postharvest Management
Divisions:	General
Depositing User:	Ms Ishrath Durafsha
Date Deposited:	19 Mar 2014 07:49
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2014 07:49
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12816

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