All humans like to consume more delousing fruits in their daily dietary patterns. Wide fruit varieties can be found in all corners of the country, some of which are native and some modified. However, most consumers prefer to eat selected fruit types regularly, and mango is one of the world's most familiar fruit. Mango is the king of fruit globally, with its flavour, colours, shapes and nutritious qualities. Mango originates from the Asian continent and is native to the region. Mangifera Indica L. It's the scientific name of the mango. In the current scenario, mango displays significant post-harvest losses (30-40 %) due to improper post-harvest management practices.
Therefore, proper post-harvest management practices should be introduced into the supply chain to practice all actors who engage in the mango fruit supply chain, such as farmers, collectors, transporters, processes, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers well. If they can be aware well, many post-harvest losses can drastically minimize. According to facts, what is the mango fruit supply chain; is a process from harvesting to consumption with passing different activities, like as harvesting, packaging, transporting from field to packhouse, packhouse operations (sorting, grading, ripening, packaging), transporting from packhouse to market, wholesaling, retail marketing, and sometimes processing as well. Here, these steps explain to gain sufficient knowledge for the readers to become an entrepreneur in the agricultural sector to enhance their lives.
Harvesting of mango.
Mango is a seasonal fruit, typically giving the primary two harvestings season per year. The quality and quantity of harvest depend on various factors, especially pre-harvesting management practices. After harvesting, mango quality can manage by practising novel post-harvest management practices. Therefore harvesting is a vital essential step in the post-harvest period. Generally, mango fruits can harvest with matching maturity indicators. Correct harvesting stage, time, and recommended equipment types are more important to get high-quality fruits, even minimizing the post-harvest losses during the harvesting period. See additional information on Mango postharvest technology- Part 01.
Mango has latex to protect its fruits. When harvesting the mango fruits, this latex harms the fruit quality by touching the latex on the mango skins. Mango latex has more nutrients and is a good food source for more microorganisms, especially funges and bacteria. Due to the growth of microorganisms, post-harvest disease occurs. De-waxing is the best solution to minimize the touch of latex on mango skins. This is elementary equipment. Just after harvesting the mango, this method should be practised well.
Packaging.
Packaging is a vital step in the fruit supply chain. Most actors use
unrecommended packaging equipment, such as wooden boxes, gunny bags, etc. The
plastic crate is the best alternative for that, and it minimizes considerable
post-harvest losses when comparing wooden boxes. Different types and sizes of
plastic containers are available in the market; the large size of plastic
crates generally recommends mango packaging. It is a friendly handling method
and minimizes many post-harvest losses after harvesting.
Transporting from field to packhouse.
The harvested mango should transport to the packhouse to operate other packhouse activities such as cleaning, sorting, grading, artificial ripening, grade to marketing, and pack to marketing. Recommended plastic cates used for transportation. Proper infrastructural facilities are more important here, as a specially developed road system and recommended vehicles.
Packhouse
operation.
Here, mango should be pre-sort and graded to remove the damaged mango fruits before moving to the ripening process. Artificial ripening is so essential to get healthy ripen mango in the market. Most collectors practice unrecommended ripening methods, which use toxic chemicals (Carbide) and directly spray the chemical on the mango fruit skin. Therefore, the recommended artificial ripening method has been introduced to ripen mango as a healthy and natural one. After solid training, many collectors use this recommended ripening method to ripen their mango. Another advantage here is immature mango can't mature, and then high-quality ripened mango can sell to consumers with enhancing consumer preference. After ripening the mango, sorting and grading steps should follow the gade mango based on their qualities; size, shape, and weight are the main parameters here. The high-quality mango fruit can be labelled with the recommended and attractive sticker to attract more consumers. Corrugated cardboard boxes are recommended for mango packaging to sell to the market. The size of boxes depends on the type of market and consumers.
The Mango
fruit supply chain creates many entrepreneurship opportunities for the farmers
and other people who engage with the mango supply chain.