Management of postharvest losses and wastages in the Indian tomato supply chain—a temperature-controlled storage perspective

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Mohan, A, Krishnan, R, Arshinder, K, Vandore, J and Ramanathan, U ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7473-4643, 2023. Management of postharvest losses and wastages in the Indian tomato supply chain—a temperature-controlled storage perspective. Sustainability, 15 (2): 1331.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021331

Abstract

Tomatoes are an extensively cultivated and consumed horticulture product in India. Horticulture produce undergoes a series of operations such as harvesting, storage, packaging, loading, unloading, and transportation before reaching the end customer in the food supply chain (FSC). Any inefficiencies in these operations cause postharvest losses (PHL) and affect the whole FSC. However, the focus of existing studies has been more on improving productivity than addressing PHL. Several technologies, such as cold storage and evaporative cooling, are available to address PHL, but hardly any technology has been implemented in the Indian FSC. Hence, studies need to identify technology adoption barriers and perform a feasibility analysis of the available technologies. This study addresses this gap by first identifying the cause and effect of PHL in the Indian tomato FSC, exploring different technologies to address the PHL and challenges in implementing those technologies, and finally proposing a feasible option to manage PHL. The case study approach was followed for the collection of relevant data. The findings show several reasons for PHL across the stages of the FSC, including reduced shelf life due to improper storage and long-distance transport. Based on the analysis of the available technologies, temperature-controlled storage facilities and collaboration among FSC partners are suggested as the best possible solutions to address the problem of PHL.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Sustainability
Creators:	Mohan, A., Krishnan, R., Arshinder, K., Vandore, J. and Ramanathan, U.
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Date:	2023
Volume:	15
Number:	2
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/su15021331 DOI 1639722 Other
Rights:	Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	25 Jan 2023 14:13
Last Modified:	25 Jan 2023 14:13
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48068