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<p>Fruits and vegetables are the horticultural crops playing a significant role in Ethiopia's food security, livelihood, and economy. However, the postharvest loss results are a severe challenge for the producers, and this review summarizes this problem. The total postharvest loss of horticultural crops, including fruits and vegetables, at various stages: harvesting, storage, transportation, and marketing ranges from 15 to 70%. Postharvest loss of vegetables alone is about 40%. Fruits like mango, banana, papaya, avocado, sweet orange, etc., take the largest share of the total postharvest loss. The postharvest causes of losses are diseases, insects, rodents, thefts, mechanical damage, premature harvesting, harvesting of overmature crops, improper harvesting and storage techniques, shortage of appropriate packaging and marketing system, seasonal fluctuation of the products, and gender inequality. Therefore, applying a possible and convenient loss reduction strategy is imperative to increase the supply of fruits and vegetables in the country.</p>
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Fruits and vegetables are the horticultural crops playing a significant role in Ethiopia's food security, livelihood, and economy. However, the postharvest loss results are a severe challenge for the producers, and this review summarizes this problem. The total postharvest loss of horticultural crops, including fruits and vegetables, at various stages: harvesting, storage, transportation, and marketing ranges from 15 to 70%. Postharvest loss of vegetables alone is about 40%. Fruits like mango, banana, papaya, avocado, sweet orange, etc., take the largest share of the total postharvest loss. The postharvest causes of losses are diseases, insects, rodents, thefts, mechanical damage, premature harvesting, harvesting of overmature crops, improper harvesting and storage techniques, shortage of appropriate packaging and marketing system, seasonal fluctuation of the products, and gender inequality. Therefore, applying a possible and convenient loss reduction strategy is imperative to increase the supply of fruits and vegetables in the country.

Postharvest Loss, Causes, and Handling Practices of Fruits and Vegetables in Ethiopia: Scoping Review

Journal of Horticultural Research

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Fruits and vegetables are the horticultural crops playing a significant role in Ethiopia's food security, livelihood, and economy. However, the postharvest...

Year	Income (US$)
1980	21030
1990	42500
2000	28510
2010	76500
2018	84300

Postharvest Loss, Causes, and Handling Practices of Fruits and Vegetables in Ethiopia: Scoping Review

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2022

Páginas: 1 - 10

Recibido: 01 oct 2021

Aceptado: 01 abr 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johr-2022-0002

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postharvest chain, pests and diseases, storage technology, transport of products

© 2022 Obse F. Etefa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Fruit and vegetable exports from Ethiopia (US$) (Chauvin et al. 2012)

Postharvest Loss, Causes, and Handling Practices of Fruits and Vegetables in Ethiopia: Scoping Review

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2022

Páginas: 1 - 10

Recibido: 01 oct 2021

Aceptado: 01 abr 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johr-2022-0002

Palabras clavepostharvest chain, pests and diseases, storage technology, transport of products

© 2022 Obse F. Etefa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Fruit and vegetable exports from Ethiopia (US$) (Chauvin et al. 2012)

Palabras clave
postharvest chain, pests and diseases, storage technology, transport of products