Helping farmers cut postharvest losses - BusinessMirror

According to the study, mango produced in Iloilo and traded in Manila showed the highest postharvest losses at nearly 34 percent. It also indicated that the total postharvest loss of freshly harvested onions from the farms in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, to the final market destination in Divisoria, Manila, was 45.06 percent, and that the estimated volume of postharvest losses for red onion reached 48,891 tons valued at close to P1.96 billion.

Meeting the food needs of the country’s population does not only mean increasing the production of staple crops and other agricultural products. It also entails huge investments in other crucial components in food production such as postharvest facilities to reduce losses, which remain significant. Reducing postharvest losses in rice alone would enable the Philippines to cut its purchases of the staple from abroad and allow local farmers to increase their incomes.

It would do well for our policymakers to allocate funds for postharvest facilities and invest in cold storage and packing facilities, facilitate the transport of agricultural goods and increase the access of planters to credit and insurance. There is also an urgent need for the national government to strengthen extension services by partnering with local government units so that farmers would get guidance on practices that would enable them to reduce postharvest losses. Output gains would not help the Philippines if farmers would continue to dry their grains on road pavements or incur losses during the transport of their crops.

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