marketable surplus and post harvest losses of ragi in ... - Agmarknet

6.1.5 In transport from threshing floor to farm storage, the total loss of Ragi was 25.77 thousand tonnes oftotal production (Annexure XXIX) or 1.13 percent.6.1.6 The total losses of Ragi in transport from field to farm storage amounted to 39.87 thousand tonnes oftotal production (Annexure XXXI) or 1.75 percent.6.1.7 During the study of losses of Ragi in storage, the startling fact coming to fore was that nearly 68.71percent of the storage at the farm household continued to be in kutcha storage and 31.29 percentstorage was pucca. The total quantity stored in kutcha godown at farm level was 821.87 thousandtonnes and in pucca storage 374.19 thousand tonnes (Annexure XXXIII).6.1.8 The total quantity of Ragi lost in storage was estimated at 12.07 thousand tonnes. (Annexure XXXII)which was 0.53 percent of total production. The losses in storage were attributable to driage,rodents, infestation, handling, etc.6.1.9 The total post harvest losses of Ragi at producers level were estimated at 86.90 thousand tonnes or3.81% of production (Annexure XXXVIII). It is to be noted here that the period of storage andquantity stored was small. Therefore, the storage losses at producer’s level appeared 3.81 percent.However, there is a scope to further curtail these losses at farm level by scientific storagepractices.