Elaborate the policy taken by the Government of India to meet the challenges of the food processing sector.

Use it to show the post-harvest loss problem the food processing sector must solve, India's data base for it, and policy and finance tools to scale solutions.

• India has run three national post-harvest loss surveys; the latest, by NABCONS for the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, covered 54 crops and commodities across all 15 agro-climatic zones (August 2020 to May 2022).
• The op-ed's fixes: storage, drying and cooling at farm and market, digital traceability, surplus redistribution, and converting wholesale market waste into bio-CNG and compost.
• Cold chain and processing support under PM Kisan SAMPADA Yojana, and FAO-SIDBI cooperation on finance for climate-resilient technologies, are routes to scale.