Reliance Fresh — reliance fresh sells mangoes, sapotas, guavas and papayas those are artificially ripened using calcium carbide

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Everytime I go to buy fruit I find that some fruits are ripened with complete yellow colour and some fruits with patches of yellow and green and with some there is white residue on the fruit. I knew this is because of man made ripening process. The fruits don't taste good, they are dehydrated, no taste, sometimes tastes bitter, sometimes irritation on tongue while eating. The guava ripens & rots quickly. The papaya looks yellow but it is hard and no jiuce. This is because of rampant usage of Calcium carbide or other chemicals in ripening process. This has become a menace. Everyone in the retail industry defends this process, protects this process, avoids discussing it and try to put the person down who points at this unhealthy practice. There is a distribution network that works like mafia and defend what they are doing. Remember, the distribution is also controlled by the government too through APMC. One of the reason why suppliers use chemicals is that they want a good shelf life for business reasons. So they get the fruits when it is raw, store it for a long time and when they want to sell it they ripen them instantly using chemicals. Suppliers are concerned with cost of transportation. Suppliers are also concerned with fruits rotting if they are supplied during natural (Organic) ripening process.

The government officials (Health department) are sleeping or try to pretend ignorance of this fact. They give reasons for not acting upon and mention that nobody is complaining. Why is the government officials (health department) not proactively testing the fruits in the market? These people should be shunted out if they don't do their work. Punishing the current practice will not solve the issue as too many people are involved. Finding the unhealthy practice and publishing officially is also the government's job. The agricultural science department is like a monk in a forest. They wont comment on the issue nor recommend anything to the government. Even if they do the government puts it in the dustbin.

The solution is with government, consumers and retailers.

The solution is to create awareness (Ill effects of chemicals on health) to the public so that public will ask for organic produce. The government should run advertisements to promote organic produce and ripening.
Secondly, create awareness to the distributors, retailers, suppliers and producers about the harmful effect of artificial ripening.
If the big retailers force the suppliers for organic ripening process then there can be a change.
The consumers should refuse to buy fruits which are artificially ripened using chemicals in retail shops so that big retailers will be forced to procure organically ripened fruits.
The government should restrict the sale of harmful chemicals to fruit suppliers.
Reliance fresh can take up the initiative if they want to be a good retailer and care for health of people. If they sell bad products then someday people will go to consumer forum.