Pakistan’s post-harvest crop losses cost over $1bn each year
date:Nov 12, 2019
le prices, is about $700 million to $934m.

The Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) Section of ADB, led by Akmal Siddiq, suggests that post-harvest losses in fruits and vegetables due to mishandling of the perishable product, poor transportation, and inadequate storage facilities and market infrastructure account for about 30 to 40pc of total production.

However, there is a severe lack of reliable and timely data on production in Pakistan making it hard for the government to under
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