Question

What are the challenges faced while storing harvested crops? Give some preventive measures.

Answer 1

Storage challenges:

• Rats and insects can eat up the grains and some microbes can grow on the grains and damage them.

• Moisture affects the quality of grains.

Preventive measures:

• Grains are sun-dried before storing to reduce moisture content and few neem leaves are placed inside grain sacks to keep the pests away.