Packaging in Agriculture – JSS3 Agricultural Science Lesson Note (First Term)

PACKAGING

Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.

Packaging also refers to designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end-use.

Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs and sells. 

Advantages

1.     Serves as protection for the product
2.     Advertises the company with its design
3.     Can be designed to suit the theme
4.     Can be designed to appeal to a target market
5.     Can be made to fit in the point of sale 

Disadvantages

1.     Cost money to make
2.   It takes a while to be made; this might slow down the production of the product as a whole
3.     Time-consuming to design
4.   Might accidentally offend certain ethnic groups if offensive symbols or designs are used. 

Though packaging comes with a cost, it is necessary for products because products are often transported to different parts of the world, and that would require an outer layer to prevent the product from being damaged.