Enhancing Global Competitiveness of Indian Apple: Investigating the Value Chain Perspective

Singh, B.; Sikka, B. K.; Singh, Sanjay Kumar

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2015.1099.64

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“…According to IIHR, the total loss of apples is 12.26%, including farm operations and storage loss [8]. The key issues in the Indian ASC are 1) losses during transit and storage; and 2) a lack of adequate technology, innovative techniques; 3) a lack of understanding of apple flow; 4) a lack of transparency in the SC; 5) monitoring and traceability; 6) less control over food safety and quality across the SC; 7) Short shelflife period; 8) Farmers' lack of understanding and knowledge 9) a lack of cold storage infrastructure [9].…”

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A Mathematical Model to Minimize the Total Cost in Apple Fruit Supply Chain: The Case of Indian Scenario

Yuvaraj¹,

Basu²

2023

Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business &Amp; Management (ICETBM 2023)

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Apple cultivation is a major employment and extremely successful economic activity in the Kashmir valley (India). The apple supply chain (ASC) in India is conventional and entails value loss at many levels of the supply chain (SC), which raises the cost of the final product. With increased production comes increased challenges in the ASC, such as a lack of suitable storage, a shortage of processing equipment, a lack of packing material, inefficient transportation, and middleman manipulation. Efficient apple transportation reduces post-harvest loss and stabilizes prices at regional cold storage facilities which is critical. The aim of this article is to develop the simple Indian ASC to ensure food security for all by means of affordability. A mathematical model is formulated to design a simple Indian ASC to minimize the total distribution cost (TDC) and post-harvest loss. A real case study of Baramulla District (India) apple distribution is solved using the heuristic approach to check the validity of the formulated model.

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