Supply Chain Management of Fruits and Vegetables: Realities and Prospects

Fruit and vegetables are an important sector of agricultural production in Uzbekistan, because they provide the population with sufficient food, as well as income for rural households. Despite this, there are a number of problems in terms of storage, harvesting, processing, and transportation dealing with supply chain management of fruits and vegetables. This article examines the existing mechanism of fruit and vegetables supply chain, as well as offers optimal solutions concerning these issues. In this research there were used secondary data collected from official statistics and professional literatures. As methods of research were used analysis and synthesis, comparison. By practicing improved supply chain management mechanism, there will be significant reduction in the wastages of fruits and vegetables which in turn will benefit both the farmers also the consumers by means of increased returns and decrease in prices respectively.

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