stimulate production quality and maintain the quality of the product in the post-harvest stage. External opportunities are related to monitoring product quality during shipment and setting the right conditions during international transport.To seize these opportunities, governmental and non-governmental organizations can support private actors by establishing new partnerships and collaboration between agricultural producers and actors further downstream in the supply chain. Governmental and non-governmental support can be in the form of providing financial support for companies that collaborate with smallholder producers or by providing training to help the establishment of producer associations. Even more so when previous programs demonstrated that high impacts can be achieved when farm-level investments are linked with downstream investments in value chain development. Furthermore, research institutes and universities play a vital role in gathering and sharing knowledge insights on post-harvest quality preservation research, such as developing the knowledge for the optimal storage conditions settings for each product.
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