• Arvind Singh Yadav
• D.C. Pandey

Mango is a very delicate fruit and get damaged easily both in unripe and ripe conditions during plucking from trees. As unripe fruits most of the cases get damaged from inside and at the time of ripening these inside damaged fruits get rotten and become uneconomic and causes huge losses predominantly, to the mango growers, sellers and buyers as well. It is important to take due care in mango harvesting, its timing of plucking, transportation and storage to avoid such damages and wastage of mango. Due to lack of awareness, inadequate and competent facilities of mango plucking, grading, storage and transportation; huge amount of mango fruits get destroyed and damaged every year in Malihabad. Mango growers, itself do enormous damages to the mango fruits at the time of fruits harvesting in the mango orchards. The study results that on an average 7.45 kg/quintal of mango gets damaged and become uneconomic at the time of plucking in the orchards in Malihabad, storms, loo, hails, heavy rain, and various biological agents are also major threats to unripe and ripe mango fruits at farm level. And rest of the damage done at the time of storage, processing and transportation. In this way about 25-40% of total mango produced get damaged and destroyed at various stages of supply chain. If these damages can be reduced anyhow; it will surely insure more money to the mango growers and sellers as well. Present paper mainly focuses on the wastages and damages to the mango fruits at farm level and further processes adopted by the mango growers in Malihabad and provide suggestions to avoid these losses.

biological agents, farm level threats, mango wastage, supply chain, uneconomic

"Mango Wastage and Farm Level Threats to the Mango Growers in Malihabad Tehsil of District Lucknow, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.383-389, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807062.pdf

"Mango Wastage and Farm Level Threats to the Mango Growers in Malihabad Tehsil of District Lucknow, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp383-389, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807062.pdf