Study On Citrus Fruit Postharvest Handling In China

With the development of citrus industry, the citrus fruit decay ratio is very high and marketing competition is inefficient, then the citrus fruit postharvest handling is important very much. Based on the citrus fruit postharvest handling's theory, this disstertation aims to reveal the current situation and constraints of citrus fruit postharvest handling industry and put forth the countermeasure to improve the efficiency. The results of the study are help for farmers to improve income and citrus fruit postharvest handling industry to increase postharvest increment. It is conductive to the development of citrus industry international competition in China as well.The paper centers on the citrus fruit postharvest handling theory, current situation, constraints and operational situation of citrus fruit postharvest handling. The main content and conclusion follow as:1. To analyze the theory basis of citrus fruit postharvest handlingAt first it analyzes all agents and value chain of citrus fruits postharvest handling industry, then with the help of equilibrium model it showed that the citrus fruit grading is how to affect the exchange quantity and price on the citrus fruit market. The citrus fruit grading is conductive to the improvement marketing exchange quantity and transport efficiency of citrus fruit postharvest handling industry as well. However, product costs, transaction costs and price are crucial factors of citrus fruit postharvest handling increment.2. To reveal the current situation and constraints of circus fruit postharvest handling The current situation of citrus fruit postharvest handling is that the low ratio ofcitrus fruit postharvest handling and all citrus fruit nearly entering market as raw material. The loss of citrus fruit is very serious and marketing competition is insufficiently. The main factors causing the decrease of efficiency in the citrus fruit postharvest handling industry included that the scale of the transaction is small and postharvest handling technology level is low, the consumption is limited and government support is insufficiently.3.To analyze the operational situation of citrus fruit postharvest handlingWith the development of citrus fruit postharvest handling industry in China, farmersincome are not improve and processing firms have to face lots of troubles at the sametime. To reveal current operational situation of citrus fruit postharvest handling and putforth eountmeasure, The positive analysis for 200 farm households and 13 citrus fruitpostharvest handling firms in Yichang has been done about citrus fruit postharvest handling. The survey indicate that the current operational situation of citrus fruit postharvest handling in China has lots of unique characters. Citrus fruit raw material is lack of professional production and the processing scale is very small, the transport organization's ability is insufficient and all agents in industry chain are loose. These characters leads to the profit contradiction between farmers and firms? high processing costs and low efficiency of citrus fruit postharvest handling industry.