Assessing the Readiness of Farmers towards Cold Chain Management

Joshi, R; Joshi, S

Assessing the Readiness of Farmers towards Cold Chain Management

Joshi, R Joshi, S

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Publisher:: IGI Global
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Designing and Implementing Global Supply Chain Management, 2016, pp. 219-235
Issue Date:: 2016

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dc.contributor.author	Joshi, R
dc.contributor.author	Joshi, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4748-5001
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-13T23:32:31Z
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dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.citation	Designing and Implementing Global Supply Chain Management, 2016, pp. 219-235
dc.identifier.isbn	9781466697201
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/163421
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of the paper is to gain an insight into the current status of farmers' awareness and practices towards maintaining the postharvest cold chain. The related hypotheses are developed and tested. The major findings include- marginalized and small farms, literacy and poor awareness level are the main causes for the backwardness of Indian farmers. Also, lack of funds forces farmers to ignore the use of cold storage. Further, multi-intermediaries and fluctuating consumer prices result farmers in not getting fair share of the consumer rupee. One of the major challenges in front of fresh food industry in India is to reduce postharvest losses across the chain through increasing awareness level of famers towards cold chain, building market information systems to assist farmers in decision-making and improving food safety and quality of farm produce available in the market.
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	IGI Global
dc.relation.ispartof	Designing and Implementing Global Supply Chain Management
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dc.title	Assessing the Readiness of Farmers towards Cold Chain Management
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
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The purpose of the paper is to gain an insight into the current status of farmers' awareness and practices towards maintaining the postharvest cold chain. The related hypotheses are developed and tested. The major findings include- marginalized and small farms, literacy and poor awareness level are the main causes for the backwardness of Indian farmers. Also, lack of funds forces farmers to ignore the use of cold storage. Further, multi-intermediaries and fluctuating consumer prices result farmers in not getting fair share of the consumer rupee. One of the major challenges in front of fresh food industry in India is to reduce postharvest losses across the chain through increasing awareness level of famers towards cold chain, building market information systems to assist farmers in decision-making and improving food safety and quality of farm produce available in the market.

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