{"content":[{"text":"Introduction \n Bangladesh has an agrarian economy in which 46% of the country’s GDP \n comes from its agriculture . This provides employment to 65% of the workers. \n Rich ,wheat , potato, here the main crops and other crops are tea ,Sugarcane \n oilseeds, fruits , Vegetables .The agricultural sector has been showing steady \n growth during the past few years .Ensuring food security for all is one of the \n major challenges that Bangladesh faced today. For that we may ensure the \n stage of production to consumption sector in a proper way . here the post \n production that the harvesting of crops is a very important issues .Crops can be \n classified into various categories based on their degree of perish ability . \n Improvement and development of new technologies through organized efforts \n has become obligatory to prevent post harvest with a view to meeting the \n demand for food. In view of the serious nutritional deficiencies in the diet of \n the people. Production has led to great post – harvest losses due to inadequate \n capacity of farm level storage facilities ,lack of modern drying methods and \n inefficient grain, handling practices . Harvests of fruits , vegetables , are done \n in specific seasons, while their supply becomes limited in the off season .The \n situation is further aggravated by huge post–harvest losses both in a quantity \n and quality due to improper handling , Storage and marketing . There is an \n urgent need to increase shelf life to extent the period of availability. \n Food Security Status: \n Food security situation in Bangladesh has improved, especially on average from \n 1800 Kcal to 3055 and kcal and further improvements on access and utilization. \n Records say in 70% people were under the food consumption poverty line, \n today this is down and 35% of the population under food consumption poverty \n line. \n It has been evident that increased domestic production, supplemented by \n imports and overall public food management contributed to relatively adequate \n availability of food at national level over the recent past years. How ever as has","bbox":{"left":0.120943,"top":0.072812,"width":0.758593,"height":0.824975}},{"text":"Page No. 2","bbox":{"left":0.783511,"top":0.941874,"width":0.095503,"height":0.016290000000000027}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}