Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, Punjab, India, E-mail: dkg_59@rediffmail.com
The management of harvest and post-harvest food losses are receiving increasing attention as a potential option for ensuring food security at the national level. Keeping it in view, the present study was undertaken to assess losses of mungbean occurring during harvest as well as post harvest stages in the Punjabstate.Thestudywasconductedon300 mungbeangrowers spread over four strata and various farm sizes in Sangrur district. Data were collected through personal interview method. This study estimated 1.09%, 1.00% and 0.84% losses of net mungbean production at harvesting stage on small, mediumandlargefarms,respectively. Overall,totalmungbean losses were estimated to be 1.04%, which included 0.91% and 0.13% losses at harvesting and post-harvesting stage, respectively. Total losses as proportion of net mungbean production was worked out to be 1.35, 1.09 and 0.93%on small, medium and large farm size, respectively.
Food grain losses,Grain legume management, Harvest/post harvest losses, Mungbean loss estimates, Pulses production losses
