Post Harvest loses of fruits and vegetables range from 20 to 40%. India's internal market for fresh produce is immense, but in many instances the market cannot sustain the large inflow of produce leading to a market glut, panic selling and drastic drop in sell prices and product losses.

These losses can be prevented with simple post-harvest practices such as rapid removal of field Heat, Cleaning, Evaporative Cooling, Refrigerated Storage, Freezing, Drying Pickling, Preserving, etc.