Ludhiana, 3rd September 2010:- Maharana Partap University of Agriculture and Technology (MPUAT), Udaipur’s, Vice-Chancellor, Prof S.S Chahal said that state of agriculture in the country could not be improved until holistic approach with special emphasis on post harvest management is adopted at national level. He was here at Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET) to discuss progress of NAIP Project on underutilized crops, which was jointly undertaken by MPUAT and CIPHET.Saying that increasing more production in isolation would not help, Prof S.S Chahal said that we were losing lot of grains, fruits and vegetables due to poor post harvest handling. “Still lot of food grains of country is rotting due to unscientific management. Cap storage of food grains is just meant for two three months as stop gap arrangement. But in our country grains are stored for years in this manner. Leading to hundreds of crore of losses every year,” he said, suggesting that we need to spend on silos storage in a phased manner.