This is the Handling or Management stage immediately following harvest. It is also the period between maturity of crop and it’s time of final consumption. This is the process of collecting, gathering and plucking of mature crops from the garden. The goal of harvesting is to gather produce from the field at the proper level of maturity with a minimum damage and loss.
With a large and growing population, ensuring an adequate food supply has alwaysbeen one of the most important goals worldwide. According to the Food and Agricul-ture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production will have to increaseby 70% to feed the world’s projected 9.1 billion population by 2050 (FAO2009). In2018, this world population projected figure has been updated to 10 …