Regardless of India being one of many largest producers of paddy, wheat, oilseeds, milk, fish, vegatables and fruits, post-harvest losses of those produce stay excessive over the worldwide customary which impacts the yield and farmers face losses. In response to a Nabard research, in 2022, the losses after harvesting of the greens until it reaches customers are estimated within the vary of 4.87%-11.61% and that of fruits is within the vary of 6.02%-15.05%. Though there are a number of measures being taken to cut back losses on the farm degree, introduction of superior cooling know-how by an Israeli startup within the local weather and agri-tech house, Pure Offset Farming (NOF), may change the situation in coming years.
NOF’s patented know-how utilises liquid C02 and offers a ‘cooling-as-service’, multiple-use worth mannequin for farmers. “NOFcooling is a patented cooling gadget that utilises CO2 in its liquid state to provide cooling vitality, offering a energy-efficient technique to cool any medium in precision agriculture. The tools has a remedy capability of 500 kg, 200 kg or 100 kg of vegatables and fruits. There is no such thing as a reliance on electrical energy for its operation,” mentioned Yoni Ben Zaken, the co-founder and chief enterprise improvement officer at NOF. The corporate has acquired queries for its cooling know-how from massive retailers like Massive Basket and Reliance Recent.
“We now have launched this cooling know-how in Maharashtra with cucumbers, strawberries and grapes. We’re additionally working with farmers in Haryana, primarily with greens and mushrooms. The cooling approach has been discovered to achieve success in mangoes, litches and flowers because it shifts CO2 from the emitters to the sector, by addressing farmer’s cooling wants,” he added.
The corporate, which not too long ago demonstrated the NOF cooling know-how in Bihar for litchi fruit, has additionally engaged with Mom Dairy on enhancing the shelf-life of apricot from Leh. The fruit has solely three days of shelf life which isn’t sufficient to deliver it to greater markets like Delhi. When the farmers preserve their harvest contained in the NOF gadget for a pair hours for remedy, CO2 liquid remedy reduces pathogens and micro organism to develop within the vegatables and fruits thus enhancing the shelf life.
NOF officers claimed that the shelf lifetime of strawberries in Satara district in Maharashtra elevated from 2-3 days to 7-8 days thus successfully growing the yield. The outcomes used for grapes in Nashik, Maharashtra has been equally encouraging. NOF is making its cooling gadget accessible to the farmers at a modest value of `12,000. “We now have developed this cooling machine protecting in consideration Indian smallholders’ farmers,” Zakne added.
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