Impact of Covid-19 on Major Vegetable Markets of Gujarat

2020 ◽  
pp. 648-655
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Potato Onion

The Covid-19 pandemic had affected the country in all aspects. Agriculture is considered as a backbone of the Indian economy. The agriculture and allied sector are also affected in various ways during the Covid-19 pandemic. The country called out lockdown due to a pandemic situation, and it affected the supply chain of agricultural produce on a larger scale. The potato, onion and tomato are the important vegetables of food dishes in India. The present study focused on these three vegetables for the four major vegetable markets of Gujarat, namely Ahmedabad, Surat, Baroda and Rajkot. The data on business days, price and arrivals were collected from the Agmark.net webpage for January-April 2019 - 2020. The study suggested that in the major markets of Gujarat total 178.8 Cr was loss observed in potato, tomato and onion from January to April 2020 compared to the same period of 2019. Thus lockdown 1 and 2 impacted on business days, arrivals and price of major commodities in major markets of Gujarat.

Blockchain for Agri-Food Supply Chain and Logistics Management

2022 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Pinki Saini ◽  
Unaiza Iqbal ◽  
Mazia Ahmed ◽  
Devinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Quality Certification ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Food Safety And Quality

Today, the globalization of the supply chain in the food industry has surged remarkably; hence, food safety and quality certification have become critical. Blockchain is recognized as a promising technology in the agri-foods industry where it can act as a systematic and robust mechanism for increasing the food traceability and provide a transparent and efficient way to assure quality, safety, and sustainability of agri-foods. By lowering the cost and increasing value, this digital technology has the potential to increase profitability of agricultural produce along the value chain. This chapter aims to investigate the potential utilization of blockchain technology in the agri-food industry, where it can be used to address issues of trust and transparency and to facilitate sharing of information sharing among stakeholders. The technology is still in a preliminary stage; thus, this chapter is written to examine its implication in the agri-food supply chain, existing initiatives, challenges, and potential.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Reducing Food Losses in the Supply Chain of Fresh Agricultural Produce

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1431
Author(s):  
Daniel I. Onwude ◽  
Guangnan Chen ◽  
Nnanna Eke-emezie ◽  
Abraham Kabutey ◽  
Alfadhl Yahya Khaled ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Quality Loss ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Food Losses

Fruits and vegetables are highly nutritious agricultural produce with tremendous human health benefits. They are also highly perishable and as such are easily susceptible to spoilage, leading to a reduction in quality attributes and induced food loss. Cold chain technologies have over the years been employed to reduce the quality loss of fruits and vegetables from farm to fork. However, a high amount of losses (≈50%) still occur during the packaging, pre-cooling, transportation, and storage of these fresh agricultural produce. This study highlights the current state-of-the-art of various advanced tools employed to reducing the quality loss of fruits and vegetables during the packaging, storage, and transportation cold chain operations, including the application of imaging technology, spectroscopy, multi-sensors, electronic nose, radio frequency identification, printed sensors, acoustic impulse response, and mathematical models. It is shown that computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, multispectral imaging, spectroscopy, X-ray imaging, and mathematical models are well established in monitoring and optimizing process parameters that affect food quality attributes during cold chain operations. We also identified the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual representation models of a particular fresh produce (digital twins) as emerging technologies that can help monitor and control the uncharted quality evolution during its postharvest life. These advances can help diagnose and take measures against potential problems affecting the quality of fresh produce in the supply chains. Plausible future pathways to further develop these emerging technologies and help in the significant reduction of food losses in the supply chain of fresh produce are discussed. Future research should be directed towards integrating IoT and digital twins for multiple shipments in order to intensify real-time monitoring of the cold chain environmental conditions, and the eventual optimization of the postharvest supply chains. This study gives promising insight towards the use of advanced technologies in reducing losses in the postharvest supply chain of fruits and vegetables.

scholarly journals Designing a Fresh Food Supply Chain Network: An Application of Nonlinear Programming

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Chung Tsao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Solution Procedure ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Fresh Food ◽  
Optimal Service ◽  
Inventory Allocation ◽  
Integrated Facility

In today’s business environment, many fresh food companies have complex supply networks to distribute their products. For example, agricultural products are distributed through a multiechelon supply chain which includes agricultural association, agricultural produce marketing corporations (APMCs), markets, and so forth. In this paper a fresh produce supply network model is designed to determine the optimal service area for APMCs, the replenishment cycle time of APMCs, and the freshness-keeping effort, while maximizing the total profit. The objective is to address the integrated facility location, inventory allocation, and freshness-keeping effort problems. This paper develops an algorithm to solve the nonlinear problem, provides numerical analysis to illustrate the proposed solution procedure, and discusses the effects of various system parameters on the decisions and total profits. A real case of an agricultural product supply chain in Taiwan is used to verify the model. Results of this study can serve as a reference for business managers and administrators.

scholarly journals A Contemporary on Recent Development Activities and Challenges in Logistics Sector in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2921-2926
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Government

Due to the emergence of the internet and wireless technology, all sectors in the world are developed in a rapid manner. Hence, the Logistics sector in India is also developed in a great phase. In recent years, the Government of India has spent more investments to develop the logistics sector, which gained more important and better contribution to the Indian economy in global. Logistics sector in India plays an important role by contributing nearly 8%of GDP to the Indian economy. Supply chain management is the process of sending the goods from the point of origin to the point of destination i.e., customer. Logistics plays an important role and an integral part of the supply chain management in handling the movement of goods. In this paper, we are trying to highlight the Government initiative and investment made in the logistics sector in India during recent years. And also, we are trying to outline some of the challenges are faced in the logistics sector in India. The entire paper is studied from the secondary source of data and we are tried to highlight the key issues, job opportunities, GDP growth and ranking among the world which is happened in logistics sector in recent years. Recently, the Government of India initiatives like Make in India, Skill India, Digital India, etc., will help to fillip the growth of logistics sector in India. Since, India is having the advantage of enormous population and thereby creating a new buddy entrepreneur among the youngsters.

scholarly journals Problems of the Farmers in Marketing Paddy in Cauvery Delta Zone, Tamilnadu

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
S. KARTHICK ◽  
R. SAMINATHAN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cauvery Delta ◽  
And Control

Indian economy is essentially a rural economy. The very presence of monetary exercises of the whole individuals is bound up with the state and soundness of this area. In India, around 70% of individuals are occupied with horticultural interests and around 50% of the public pay starts from agribusiness. Henceforth the degree of effectiveness and profitability in horticulture pretty much decides the productivity of Indian economy. In India, individuals and their whole entirety are such a great amount of bound up with the fortunes of horticulture that the movement of life and the example of exercises do close to reflect all that occurs in this area. Since farming is the benefactor of the biggest measure of merchandise and enterprises to the improvement of the nation, it gets fundamental and dependable with respect to the Government to manage and control the promoting arrangement of Agricultural produce. Horticultural promoting in India is plagued with numerous deformities. "The rancher, when all is said in done, sells his produce at a troublesome spot and at an ominous time, and generally gets entirely horrible terms." So, in such conditions, it isn't unexpected to find that the horticultural makers as a class are being abused by the buyers.

Selecting Location for Agro-Based Industry Using ELECTRE III Method

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
Seema Gupta Bhol ◽  
Jnyana Ranjan Mohanty ◽  
Proshikshya Mukherjee ◽  
Prasant Kumar Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Mustard Oil ◽  
Electre Iii ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Decision Making Problem

The Indian economy is driven by its agricultural sector. Industries based on agricultural produce are important as they give a competitive market for the agricultural production. Mustard is one of the major cash crops selected for this chapter. Mustard oil is used as cooking medium as well as other purpose in Indian households. Selecting the best location for setting up a mustard mill can be considered as a multiple criteria decision-making problem (MCDM), and ELECTRE III method is used and explained in detail to rank different location options in increasing order of suitability.

scholarly journals Effect of COVID-19 on the Indian Economy and Supply Chain

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shruti Agrawal ◽  
Anbesh Jamwal ◽  
Sumit Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Conceptual Models ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
First Case ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Sea Ports

At present time world is facing from the coronavirus disease known as Covid-19. The first case of the coronavirus was reported in the December, 2019 in the Wuhan city of China which is known as the major transportation hub of China. After the spread of Covid-19 many countries have shut down their sea ports and airports. They have banned the import and export activities. Also, China is the major distributor of the raw materials which affect the manufacturing activities across the globe due to lockdowns. India is the developing country due to the Covid-19 spread the cases reported in the India government has lockdown the country for 41 days which affected the manufacturing activities and majorly it affects the supply chains and economy of the country. In the present paper we have discussed the effect of Covid-19 on Indian economy and on supply chains in India. There are total of 18 critical barriers are found out which affected the supply chains in the India. It is expected that this study will helpful the researchers to develop the conceptual models to overcome from this issue.

scholarly journals Impact of Foreign Direct Investment of Indian Economy in Epoch of Global Value Chain with Reference to Industrialists in Tirunelveli District

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S10) ◽  
pp. 635-637
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Impacts

A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment in the form of controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country. It is thus distinguished from a foreign portfolio investment by a notion of direct control. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in other country. Generally, Foreign direct investment (FDI) takes place when an investor establishes foreign business operations or acquires foreign business assets, including establishing ownership or controlling interest in a foreign company.Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India is a major monetary source for economic development in India. Foreign companies invest directly in fast growing private Indian businesses to take benefits of cheaper wages and changing business environment of India. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) gives both positive and negative impacts on Indian economy in epoch of global value chain. The global value chain (GVC) describes the people and activities involved in the production of a good or service and its supply, distribution, and post-sale activities (also known as the supply chain) when activities must be coordinated across geographies. A supply chain is the network of all the individuals, organizations, resources, activities and technology involved in the creation and sale of a product from the delivery of source materials from the supplier to the manufacturer, through to its eventual delivery to the end user. International production, trade and investments are increasingly organized within so-called global value chains (GVCs) where the different stages of the production process are located across different countries. Industrialists are having different thoughts on impacts of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Indian economy.

scholarly journals Impact of GST on Indian Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Bindal ◽  
Dinesh Chand Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Indirect Taxation ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Goods And Services

GST Stands for Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 29th March, 2017 and came into effect from 1st July, 2017. It was termed as One Nation One Tax. The major impact of introducing GST in India is the transformation in the fiscal structure of the Indian federal setup. The fiscal right of the states and centre to deal with goods and services independently will be taken away and both the Governments have to depend on each other’s for managing the so called goods and services tax in future. This is a very hard blow to the freedom of participating governments in the federal system. The perceived benefits are – • GST would eliminate to a large extent, the multiplicity of administrative mechanisms and tax rates across different states. • It removes many of the cascading effects of indirect taxation. • Its positive impact on retail as a whole will make supply chain more cost effective. • It is expected to address most of the complex issues in taxation like software, intangibles, composite contracts etc. and brings more clarity in the levy.

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