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Table 5 Postharvest practices used by mungbean farmers in Southeast Asia and East Africa, in % of farmers, 2017–18

From: Mungbean in Southeast Asia and East Africa: varieties, practices and constraints

Practice

Southeast Asia

East Africa

KHM

IDN

LAO

PHL

THA

VNM

Avg

UGA

KEN

TZA

Avg

% of harvest sold

95

89

93

85

88

91

89

73

81

83

81

Phosphine tablets

1

0

0

0

10

4

3

1

0

7

3

Insecticide/fungicides

2

0

0

34

42

4

13

10

41

5

25

Botanicals

1

0

4

34

5

17

5

29

0

7

5

Hermetic storage bags

8

27

0

20

0

72

27

3

28

26

25

  1. Cambodia (KHM), Indonesia (IDN), Lao PDR (LAO), Philippines (PHL), Thailand (THA), Vietnam (VNM), Uganda (UGA), Kenya (KEN), Tanzania (TZA). Avg = Average all countries per region