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Post Harvest Technology of Agri-Horticultural Crops is a most wanted paradigm shift from agricultural crops to value added horticultural crops with their food processing and allied industries for the benefit of the farmers. Stagnation of agricultural growth and productivity is experienced since the decade of nineties with slow change of socio economic progress of the farm sector. Diversity and conservation of all our biological resource including genetic resources medicinal plants tropical forest resources water resources coastal resources and productive agri horticultural crops with their food processing is the need of the hour to remove hunger from the society.

Bio fach movement to thrust organic framing hi tech and commercial horticulture, biotechnology, organic foods to supply for ecological pest management use of drip and sprinkler irrigation and plastic agriculture food processing and horticulture industries export scenario incentives in food processing and horticulture schemes, efficient post harvest technology of agri-horticultural crops and modern researches etc. will surely augment the national progress reaching the goal of vision 2020. Of course all these are subject to varying nature of risks opportunities and feasibilities of enhanced socio-economic security towards the farming community.