Packaging fulfils the diverse role from protecting products, preventing spoilage, contamination, extending shelf life, ensuring safe storage thereby helping to make them readily available to consumers. India is one of the largest producers of commodities like foodgrains, sugar, fruits, vegetables and tea. Due to varied crop pattern, localized production of commodities, safe and hygienic storage, transportation and distribution and protection against wastage, hence packaging is of utmost importance. Huge losses have been observed in agriculture produce in India. Wastage varies from 5 to 35% depending on nature of crops. Majority of wastage takes place in each of the above steps viz. storage, transportation and at retail market due to improper packaging. Bulk Packaging provides a solution for commodities weighing 10 to 50 Kg during handling, storage and transportation. The present paper describes trends in Bulk Packaging for various commodities, suitability of Polypropylene (PP) Woven Sacks for packaging of foodgrains, sugar, tea, similarly for packaging and transport of vegetables and other horticulture produce PP leno bag is an effective packaging system. With changing packaging need, optimization of packaging role of Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container (FIBC) and its future has been highlighted as trend. PP Woven sacks are worldwide material of choice for bulk packaging of edible commodities for domestic use and exports.
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