Investment in Technologies: Key Strategy for Postharvest Loss Reduction

Abstract

Key Messages

Key Messages

• The government is supporting smallholder producers to form commodity associations and producer business groups to facilitate production and marketing.
• Smallholder farmers lack access to requisite technologies to aggregate and process high- quality products that meet the target markets' standards.
• Investment in postharvest technologies is viable when many adopted by farmers or farmer groups and discount rates are low
• There is a need to promote proven low-cost innovative postharvest technologies to ensure market access and reduce postharvest losses.