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D-post-harvest-loss Dictionary

Post-harvest loss

Produce lost or downgraded between harvest and sale

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
Produce lost or downgraded between harvest and sale
How to use it
Estimate the share of produce lost between field and sale and include it in the budget. Reducing losses is often cheaper than growing more.
South African benchmark
Article 53 measures post-harvest loss as a major hidden cost in African food chains.
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
C5 Lesson 5.4
Calculate it
T-C-05 Delivered Cost Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A053
See also
Cold chain, Pre-cooling, Aflatoxin
The cold chain from picking to buyer, with the danger hours before coolingThe cold chain: the clock starts at pickingPickfield heatPre-coolpack-houseCold truckreeferCold storedepot or portBuyershelfDanger hours: produce warm, losing valueKept cold without a break from pack-house to shelf
From Module 5, Logistics and Cold Chain, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.