Integrated PostHarvest Management

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• Integrated Post-Harvest Management

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• Issues Covered (18 questions discussed)
• Awareness- at farmer/village level, town/city
  market consumer level
• Processing at the household level
• Post-harvesting techniques at the farm level
• Addressing cultural barriers to using cauliflower
  leaves, etc.
• Including fortified foods in to MDM programme
  PDS
• Marketing/linkages (farm to market) Issues
• Research- what is currently known and unknown
• Anti-nutrition factors
• Stressed importance of addressing IPHM moving
  from theory to reality

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Suggestions/Points to Take Forward

• Examine ways to encourage small scale
  enterprises/womens organizations at rural
  urban level for IPHM
• Collection of raw material for production
  preservation of leaf powder in general
  cauliflower leaf powder (CLP) in particular
• Awareness building- nationally locally
• Use food education programmes in schools
• Proposal (possibility) for NHM and FAO to
  introduce fortified leafy vegetables (CLP) into
  existing MDM model
• Possibility of propagating fortified food with
  CLP under PDS
• Clinical Research on food safety
• Phytochemical profile of various leaves
  (cauliflower, drumsticks, etc.)
• amount of residue remaining after washing,
  blanching, drying, etc.
• Feasibility study on introduction of fortified
  foods