The present project was undertaken to assess the post harvest losses and value addition to banana through processing as followed in Gujarat. The effect of various ripening methods on losses were also determined. The study revealed that the overall post harvest losses in banana after harvesting till ripening was found to be 15.43%, which included losses at field level (0.77%), at traders level (5.86%) as well as ripening losses (8.80%). Only negligible losses were reported and observed during the processing of banana. The highest value of actual total loss (16.00%) was observed in case of...

Onion bulbs are graded manually at farm and trader level.Manual grading of onion is a labour consuming and tedious operation coming with many losses. Therefore, the modern technologies, like automatic grading systems, are of utmost need. Grading is one of the most important operations affecting onion export. It determines the size of standard sale package, thereby increasing marketing attractiveness, and simplifies the mechanization of different handling systems, such as cutting and peeling. There are different types of onion graders available in the Indian market. These are of higher...