Fruits are hand-picked or plucked with a harvester.
During harvesting, the latex trickles down the fruit surface from the point of detachment imparting a shabby appearance to it upon storage . After harvest the fruits are usually heaped under a tree on the ground. Bruised and injured fruits develop brown to black spots during storage making the fruits unattractive. Moreover, injuries to the peel or to the stalk end serve as avenues for invasion of microorganism and lead to rotting of the fruits. The postharvest losses in mangoes have been estimated in the range of 25-40 per cent from harvesting to consumption stage.