Farmers adopt improved storage methods to cut post-harvest losses
Sealed bags and shared drying floors are helping smallholders keep more of their harvest.
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Smallholder farmers in several states are turning to sealed storage bags and shared drying floors to reduce the share of their harvest lost to pests and moisture.
Extension workers said losses that once reached a quarter of the crop in some areas have fallen noticeably where farmers use the new methods.
The bags cost money at the start, but we sell later at a better price.
Cooperatives are now pooling orders to bring the price of storage bags down, and some are sharing drying floors so that members do not have to build their own.
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