Scope and Objective of the Study

SIGNIFICANCE OF GRAIN STORAGE LOSSES

This Study on the Techno-Market Survey of Grain Storage Losses in India was undertaken for an on behalf of the Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India by M/s Santek Consultants Pvt. Ltd. the Study was mainly carried out with the following objectives and scope of work:

• To delineate the extent of relationship and the importance of Grain Storage Losses in the overall agricultural economy of the country
• To identify and assess the various technological options available globally and in India to address the problems of Grain Storage Losses,
• To make socio-economic feasibility analysis of the preferred options and their possible spin-offs,
• To make recommendations on the action plans needed to mount the development activities so as to mitigate the inadequacies suffered by the community, and
• To make assessment of the monetary, human, capital goods and raw material needs for implementing the recommendations, arising from the study.

In short the report was to clearly bring out the following:

• Relationship and the importance of Grain Storage Losses to Agriculture.
• The Current status of the technological developments pertaining to grain Storage Losses in the world and in the Country. Importance and its potential.
• Assessment of the various technological options which can be adopted for Grain Storage Losses and assessment of the requirement of the various resource parameters such as energy, raw material, infrastructure and manpower, etc. to arrive the preferred technology options available to the country.
• Short term & long term economic aspects of preferred options along with their feasibilities.
• Impact of the preferred option(s) by itself and its spin-offs.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• For implementation of preferred technology option(s) indicating critical inputs required for successful implementation of these technologies and assessment of the requirement of various raw material, capital goods and humans resources their availability and investments required to commercilise, and benefits/ returns expected. Maximum possible quantification is required.
• For R&D/technology development indicating the requirement of inputs and expected benefits.
• Action Plan for implementation of recommendations along with identification of:
• List of available technologies for minimizing Grain Storage Losses and
• The agencies/groups/individuals for implementation.
• Expected impact of recommendations, if implemented.

The report consists of six more chapters apart from this Executive Summary chapter. These chapter are discussed in brief in the succeeding paragraphs.                                                                                                                                 Back