Choosing the Crops (Groupwise) based on Shelf Life

As part of our Agriculture for Everybody blog series, we are going to see how to Select the Crops (Groupwise) based on Shelf Life.

We have already seen several options of choosing the crops.  One more addition to that can be the following.

Generally, most of the crops we produce have short shelf life.  In this scenario, the farmer is forced to sell the produce immediately as the produce gets rotten easily.  It would be prudent on the part of the farmer to allocate a small portion of the land to produce crops which have longer shelf life.

In this way, the farmer can save the produce and sell it at the right price.

The following are some of the examples of both Shorter Shelf Life Crops and Longer Shelf Life Crops.

Shorter Shelf Life Crops

• Sugarcrops like Sugarcane
• Vegetables like Tomato, Ladies Finger etc
• Flowers
• Fruits like Mango, Guava, Jamun etc

Longer Shelf Life Crops

• Cereals like Paddy, Wheat
• Millets like Maize, Millet, Ragi , Cumbu etc
• Pulses
• Oil Seeds like Castor, Groundnut, Gingelly etc
• Fibre Crops like Cotton, Jute
• Plantation Crops like Coconut, Cashewnut, Arecanut etc
• Spice Crops like Ginger, Garlic, Tamarind etc
• Vegetables like Elephant Yam, Tapioca etc
• Fruit Crops like Jackfruit etc