www.ijcrt.org © 2020 IJCRT | Volume 8, Issue 7 July 2020 | ISSN: 2320-2882 IJCRT2007389 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org 3772 A review of Post Harvest Management and value addition of horticultural crops: A source of income generation for the farmers of Easter Utter Pradesh Shashi Bala 1 ,Kamlesh Kumar Gautam 2 and Mamta Sahu 3 1 &2 Department of Horticulture, U.P. College, MGKVP, Varanasi, U.P. (India) 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Christ Church College, kanpur, Abstract India harvested 223.089 million tonnes of horticultural produce from 20.876 million hectares of land in the 11 th five year plan. The major crops contributing to it are fruits and vegetables (approx 204 million tonnes from 14.314 million hectares area). Horticulture sector contributing 30 percent to the India’s agricultural GDP from 8.5 percent of cropped area. As the waste utilization technology are adopting in developed countries and the scales of economies of these technologies does follow in Indian conditions due to various factors. Therefore, there is a need for development of cost effective technologies for the production of value added products. Post harvest management of fruits and vegetables provides ample opportunities for value addition besides providing wealth from waste. Its effective utilization helps in reducing the cost of production of crops besides optimum utilization of biomass. A several process technologies used to utilize fruit and vegetables such as drying & dehydration, freezing, fermentation, extraction, etc., are some treatment examples that can be useful to recycling and upgrading waste of fruit and vegetable market. Keywords: Horticulture, Post Harvest management, Post Harvest losses, Value Addition, Biomass, etc. Introduction The horticultural crops has the huge potential for development of wastelands through planned strategies, need comparatively less water than food crops, provide higher employment opportunity and environment-friendly. On the basis of nutritional security, fruits and vegetables have high potential of value addition that gives high foreign exchange earnings and is an important item of commerce as they have gained enormous market potential. Horticultural crops in Indian agricultural economy shared a significant role as it contributes 30% to the GDP from 11.73 % of its arable land area. Indian fruits and vegetable sector is the largest in the world next to China in terms of production with estimated food processing industry size of US$ 70 billion as in 2012, India had the production of 257 million tons of food grain (rice, wheat, coarse grains and pulses), 75 million tons of fruits and 149 million tones of vegetables. India has very high post harvest losses of fruits and vegetables which reached to 30 to 40 per cent and only 2.2 % of the total production are under processing as compared to the other countries like USA and China which are far ahead than India in reducing the wastage and enhancing the value addition and shelf life of the farm products. Different organizations in India have been trying to find solution for serious issue related to post-