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As an engineer, I regularly travel to sort out post-harvest problems and I am convinced that there is little benefit to be gained from merely increasing farm production without making considerable improvements to post-harvest systems and facilities.
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Once the molds get a foothold, poor storage conditions also promote their post-harvest growth on grain.
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That alone will free 20% of the budget, which can be rechanneled to farm-to-market roads, dams, irrigation canals, post-harvest facilities, and research and development.
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"There's been lots of genetic improvement on food crops for post-harvest handling and that's essentially what we're doing for Christmas trees, " Mr. Frampton said.
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The other drawback is what is known as post-harvest management.
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For example, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ethiopia and DuPont to boost maize harvests through increased use of hybrid maize seed, improved seed distribution, and post-harvest storage.
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Because much of the loss to insects and diseases occurs after the plants are fully grown, the use of genetically engineered varieties that have higher post-harvest yields means that the farming (and irrigation) of fewer plants can produce the same total amount of food.
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Parts of the post were excerpted from a recent IT-Harvest White Paper.
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