Background
Post-harvest losses are high in the Bangladeshi potato sector. The losses result from improper post-harvest handling, cleaning, grading, bagging, transportation and storage of the potatoes. Also the quality of the harvested potato is often poor. The consortium partners Verbruggen Palletizing Solutions BV, Allround Vegetable Processing BV, Agroplant Holland BV, Deltadesh Pvt Ltd and Advance Consulting work together to support the development of the potato sector in Bangladesh. Together they aim to reduce post-harvest losses, leading to higher net incomes for potato growers and traders.
Advance Consulting is the consortium leader and started the implementation of this three-year project in January 2019. The Government of the Netherlands provides financial support.
What do we do
The introduction of better post- harvest handling, storage technologies and business approaches opens up new opportunities for a range of supply chain improvements. This includes the uptake of improved seed potatoes and other yield improving factors, expansion of the potato processing industry and increasing potato exports.
To demonstrate this expected impact, activities are implemented which are centred around the following four different outputs:
The above activities are implemented at two identified potato trading companies together with their associated growers:
- Rangpur Himagar Pvt Ltd is part of the NAZ Group and is located in North-West Bangladesh, in Rangpur. It is a potato trading company which sells potatoes from its own cold storage on the domestic and export market. In addition, the company offers cold storage services to potato growers and traders who pay storage rent. The capacity of the storage facility is 250,000 bags and the facility consists of four rooms of each four levels.
- Salamin Foods Ltd is part of the Sathi Fresh group and is located in North-West Bangladesh, in Joypurhat. It is a potato trading company which sells potatoes from its own cold storage on the domestic market. In addition, the company offers cold storage services to potato growers and traders who pay storage rent. The capacity of the storage facility is 150,000 bags and the facility consists of four rooms.
Latest News
Preharvest visit March 2020
During the first week or March, Agroplant and Advance Consulting visited Bangladesh for the Potato Impact Cluster. They were welcomed at the warehouses of Rangpur Himagar Pvt. Ltd. and Salamin Foods Ltd. and they also visited the potato fields of the selected potato...
Pilot potato growers selected, trained and supplied with improved seed potatoes
During the second half of 2019,the pilot potato growers were selected by the partners. In Rangpur (Rangpur Himagar) the project will work with 5 selected potato growers and in Joypurhat (Salamin Foods) with 4 selected growers. The 9 potato growers together have an...
Bangla business partners selected!
Unsuitable storage facilities and lack of knowledge on quality storage and handling of potatoes are the cause of a lot of unnecessary losses of quality and volume during storage. There is need for improved storage, grading, handling and packaging technologies that...

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