Saving the mango crop
Spraying mangoes on the tree does not prevent all disease infections which may cause fruit which look good at harvest time to go bad before it reaches market. Now there is a machine designed to combat post-harvest fruit infections by dipping harvested fruit in fungicide. Keith Thompson of London's Tropical Development and Research Institute (TDRI) has beech testing it in Jamaica. According to Thompson, the only way to fight latent disease infections is to dip the fruits in a combination of hot water and fungicide. So Thompson and his team built a machine designed to treat one tonne of fruit per hour. This equipment heats the water with a gas heater and controls the water temperature electronically. Thompson, who can be reached at the TDRI in London, will supply plans of the machine on request.
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1986
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44446 |
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