Post-harvest pathology of fruits and vegetables

The documents notes that considerable quantities of food leaving the farm gate never reach the consumer because of post-harvest deterioration problems which have been likened to a leaky pipeline. Efforts to increase agricultural production would be incomplete without decreasing losses along the chain linking the farmer with the final consumer. Against this background, post-harvest diseases can be defined as diseases that develop during harvesting, grading, packing, transportation to market, during storage and handling, etc. In other words, post-harvest diseases continue to develop until final consumption of the produce. The contents: Magnitude of losses; effect of post-harvest diseases on produce; cause of post-harvest deterioration; symptoms of post-harvest diseases and causes of post-harvest deterioration, etc. (MIBA)

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	64745 Elango, F., 105855 Planella, I., 117562 Seepersad, M., 1280 IICA, Port-of-Spain (Trinidad y Tobago), 4387 Central Marketing Agency, St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago), 21034 West Indies Univ., St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago), 14658 Ministry of Food Production, and Marine Exploitation, St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago), Workshop on Post Harvest Handling of Horticultural Commodities for Export St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago) 25-27 Jun 1990
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	St. Augustine (Trinidad y Tobago) 1990
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