Post harvest losses are still high with recent statistics indicating that the country is losing more than 30 percent of its maize crop to post-harvest loses annually.<\/p>\n
A Researcher and Epistemologist, Trust Dunga, says the nation, therefore, needs to adopt modern grain storage and treatment measures to minimize the losses.<\/p>\n
According to Dunga, most of the crop is lost during harvesting, drying, handling and transportation stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cFarmers continue to cry foul almost every year as output from production does not tally investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMostly, the farmers lose produce after harvest and there is a need to explore alternative means of safeguarding the grain after harvest,\u201d Dunga said.<\/p>\n
And Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) said post-harvest losses have substantially increased in the past five years.<\/p>\n
According to Cisanet Executive Director, Tamani Nkhono-Mvula, the problem has become rampant in the past three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very big problem and has always been there. The loss is bigger than what is lost in the field, \u201che said.<\/p>\n
Nkhono-Mvula then said there was need for the nation to find a lasting solution to the problem.<\/p>\n
He called on stakeholders, including researchers, to further explore alternative produce storage systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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