The Postharvest Education Foundation and Amity University are now in the process of setting up a model Integrated Postharvest Management Center on the Amity campus in Noida (near New Delhi, India). In preparation for this new training center’s launch in 2013, we and our colleagues at Amity University and Tamale PolyTechnic in Ghana are offering postharvest technology training via two new Postharvest E-learning Programs during 2012 for young horticultural professionals. 

The South Asia 2012 Postharvest E-Learning Program is open to qualified applicants from India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh and the Global 2012 Postharvest E-Learning Program is open to applicants from any country in the developing world. Deadlines for applications was January 1, 2012.