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Project Title:
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE LOSS
ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED HIGH VALUE
FOOD CROPS (Mango, Banana, Calamansi,
Carrots, Cabbage, Onion)
Project Implementers:
Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension-
Department of Agriculture (BPRE-DA)
Rosendo Rapusas, PhD. ------ Project Leader
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Specific Objectives:
1. Assess the magnitude and nature of losses at
major steps in the handling chain of selected
high value crops;
2. Identify and analyze the factors causing or
influencing these losses;
3. Identify the constraints and problems that
affect the distribution and marketing of these
crops;
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Specific Objectives:
Methodology
Conceptual Framework
• Based on systems approach:
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Conceptual Framework
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Volume of production
Practices of farmers
Effect on supply
•Postharvest
Quantitative
•Marketing
and qualitative
assessment of
Practices of traders/handlers
postharvest
• Postharvest
losses
• Marketing
Others Factors
Effects on income
• Consumer/institutional
requirements farmer
• Technical trader
• Infrastructure
Effects on price
Climatic & other
environmental conditions
Conceptual Framework
• The system: the farming and trading community
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• Sensitivity analysis:
- farm gate price high in March, thus,
farmer will profit more
- wholesaler and retailer never lose at any
prevailing market price
- with MAP, retailer gains more
• Partial budget analysis:
- use of MAP= additional benefit of P8,000 per
5,000 kg shipment or P1.61/kg; should be
used when price is high
• In the long run, farmers will benefit from MAP
as it will assure better price for maintaining
good quality produce.
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Establishment of postharvest facilities: collection
centers, packinghouses, precoolers and low cost
evaporative coolers; hot water tanks, low cost storage
systems, mechanical dryers
• R& D related:
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RECOMMENDATIONS
• R & D related (con’t..)
- establishment of quality assurance program from
production to marketing
• Policy-related
- implementation and enforcement of grades and standards
even at the local level of marketing
- upgrading market information programs and timely
dissemination of market information
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Policy-related (con’t…)
- provide support in disseminating postharvest
technologies and their utilization in terms of
assistance, e.g, in acquiring/establishing the
facility or equipment
- adopt measures and policies to make efficient
the transport and marketing systems (increase
space allotment and landing priority for high
value crop[ produce, high value crop pass to
prevent road taxes or kutong
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THANK YOU
Team Members from PSSD
Physiologists/ Postharvest Technologists
EB Esguerra
PA Nuevo
JU Agravante Postharvest Engineers
LA Artes KF Yaptenco
Socio-Economists EQ Amatorio
MV Maunahan
D Del Carmen
GD Masilungan
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