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 ROLE OF LOGISTICS IN  AGRICULTURE Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. Logistics management plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of the agricultural supply chain. Logistics management in the agricultural industry is the process that ensures the optimal and continuous flow of agro-goods from manufacturers/suppliers to producers and, eventually, to consumers. Some of the activities needed to facilitate this logistics process include agricultural production, acquisition, storage, handling, transportation, and distribution. By improving logistical sysytems and processses, agricultural businesses can overcome many of the challenges and problems. This eventually helps in reducing costs, improve efficiency, and better serving of the customers.

  TOP 10 SPICIEST PEPPERS IN THE WORLD SHU is a way of quantifying how spicy a pepper is by measuring the concentration of capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is the chemical responsible for the spicy sensation within a pepper.  Carolina reaper: 2200000 SHU. The Carolina Reaper has a unique stinger tail that is unlike any other pepper and every pod is different. It gets this heat from cross between a Ghost pepper  and a Red Habanero Trinidad scorpion moruga : 2009231 SHU. Native to the lands of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. Recently discovered hottest pepper. 7 Pod Douglah: 1853936 SHU. hottest pepper you can find that isn’t red. It has the best flavour and is brown and scorching hot. 7 Pot Primo: 1469000 SHU. D istinctive with its long skinny “tail”.  Trinidad Scorpion Butch T : 1463700 SHU. The origin of this pepper is from Australia. Naga viper: 1349000 SHU. Naga Viper is an extremely rare pepper cultivated in the UK. Hybrid of many different peppers and years of cross pollination created the

VALUE ADDITION IN AGRICULTURAL CROPS  To increase the profit value and consumer attraction of a commodity. Value addition decreases the post-harvest process. It increases the shelf life of agricultural and horticultural perishable commodities. It improves the profitability of farmers. Value addition helps in providing better quality, safe products to consumers. Value-added foods provide better nutrition and also greater income for the producer, access to new markets, and new process to improve packaging and storage to reduce waste and ensure greater food safety. Value addition brings better opportunities in biotechnology, food engineering, and restructuring food distributions.

  ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURE Supply chains are principally concerned with the flow of products and information between supply chain member organizations-procurement of materials, transformation of materials into finished products, and distribution of those products to end customers. It helps in warehousing, sourcing,modelingand simulation, demand planning and forecasting, lifecycle management, and logistics of the agriculture produce of farmers. Agriculture supply chain management implies managing the relationships between the businesses responsible for the efficient production and supply of products from the farm level to the consumers to meet consumers’ requirements reliably in terms of quantity, quality and price.

REASONS FOR FARMER'S SUICIDE IN INDIA In India, the statistics show a constant increase in suicide rates, and the states that account for most significant number of suicide are Maharashtra, MP, Chattisgarh, and Karnataka. These five states together accounted for about 90 percent of total farmer suicides.  The changes, brought by the government policy of 1991, increased the cost of inputs, whereas, the price that one gets after production has decreased to a large extent or become far more volatile. The producers with small and marginal landholders, who cultivate cash crops such as coffee and cotton, have been particularly hard hit by these changes.  T he high input costs of cultivation and falling output costs to the increasing number of suicides. A large number of farmers produce at a loss every year. Farming is becoming risky daily due to poor irrigation facilities and decreasing subsidies. M onsoons are a genuine cause of farmer suicides in India.  Farmers, when unable to earn mo