Abstract:
Guava (Pisidium guajava L) is one of the common and important fruit crop in India which
occuipies third place after citrus and mango in terms of area and production. Allahabad and
kaushambi dstricts of Uttar Pradesh have been very famous for producing best quality of guava
in the world. Post harvest losses and speedy quality detoration are the serious problem of guava
fruit which not only pulls the producer's price down but also decreases the farmer gain The
present work entitled "Study on post harvest losses of Guava at different stages of marketing
in Allahabad District, U.P" was carried out in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Using
multistage sampling technique 100 farmers from the three categories of the marginal, small and
large farmers; five operators each from the different market functionaries. Here in this study, it
was estimated till the produce remains in the hands of producers/ PHCs. Physical loss was
estimated to be 8.92 percent of the total harvest while that in economic terms was 6.04 percent.
Both were maximum at marginal farms and depicted a decreasing trend as the size of farm
increased. Economic loss was less than physical losses because the damaged fruits which were
partially degraded fetch some price when sold to poor class people or local processors. Of the
total harvested product 99.04 percent was marketable surplus whereas the marketed surplus was
only 98.43 percent. Marketable surplus as percentage to total fruits harvested was 90.20 and the
total physical losses was 9.47. Here again it was found that proportion of marketable surplus
increased as the size of farm and output, and the losses depicted a decreasing trend.
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