Proper post harvest management of any perishable maximizes its shelflife. Precooling and storage are two major areas, which can contribute to a great extent in increasing the shelflife of banana. An attempt has been made to find out ideal package of post harvest handling of banana which maximizes its shelflife. Different precooling treatments(forced air cooling, hydro-cooling, dipping each at 5,8,10 deg.C), wax and control treatments were tried. Three storage environments viz. ambient condition (30 ± 3 deg.C), zero energy cool chamber (25 ± 10 deg.C at 90 95 % RH), and cold storage (13.5 ±...
Proper post harvest management of any perishable maximizes its shelflife. Precooling and storage are two major areas, which can contribute to a great ...