Table 4 Farmer postharvest practices
Post-harvest practices and methods | Percent of farmers |
|---|---|
Drying of pods off-field | 82.3 |
Threshing | 98.4 |
Winnowing | 91.7 |
Sorting of beans | 45.6 |
Grain dressing/treatment | 23.6 |
Bagging | 22.3 |
Storage and structure | 80.7 |
 Farmers with a produce storage facility | 54.2 |
 Store in same sleeping house | 89.3 |
 Store in stand-alone storage structure | 9.3 |
 Store in a granary | 0.0 |
 Store in another place | 2.2 |
Storage practice and facility | Â |
 Stored in gunny bag placed on cement floor | 45.7 |
 Stored in gunny bag raised above ground | 11.8 |
 Stored in gunny bag placed on earth floor | 5.9 |
 Stored in containers (plastic basins, buckets, tins) | 5.7 |
 Stored in improved/PICs bag | 2.1 |
 Silo | 0.8 |
 Tarpaulins | 0.6 |
Practice natural grain drying after harvest | 76.0 |
Secondary processing of grain | 0.0 |
Proper packing/ Bagging | 57.5 |