Handling Criticized By Horticulturists T HE Horticultural Marketing Council, which has
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been disbanded because of lack of support by the trade, fired a parting broadside at the careless handling of produce in its final report, which reached M.P.s last week.
Transport damages and delay to horticultural produce are very great and largely avoidable, the Council's indictment says. And while each group concerned in its handling and transport has accepted the need for improvement, each has denied the responsibility for failure to observe proper care.
Says the report: "It is always the other fellow's fault. This defensive attitude is perhaps the most serious bar to progress. The principal need in this field is for this attitude to be replaced by a positive and continuous search for better ways, and by whole-hearted collaboration with other groups, to this end ". The railways come in for the most detailed criticism.