Recent News and Events
Published By: Admin on: 2013-10-03
A two days training on post-harvest management of off-season vegetables was organised on 12-13 September 2013 at Agriculture Research Station (ARS), Dailekh for farmers from HVAP grant receiving groups and cooperatives in Dailekh, Kalikot and Accham including staff and social mobilisers of the local NGOs.
The participating farmers and social mobilisers benefitted from the training gaining sufficient skills on general principles and practices of post-harvest of vegetables, techniques of identifying maturity indices and proper harvesting measures, importance of grading and packaging and other post-harvest handling practices, about different tools and packaging materials used in fresh vegetable handling, identifying and managing the major post-harvest diseases and disorders of fresh vegetables, and the basic principles of zero energy vegetable storage.
The training was facilitated by HVAP Technical Team including Ghanashyam Chaudhary, Nageswor Nayak and Guru Prasad Adhikari and Basant Chalise from ARS, Dailekh.
