What is the importance of post-harvest handling in horticulture crops and factors affecting postharvest quality of horticultural produce?
post harvest handling play a vital role in enhancing the shelf life of fruit by protect the fruit from deterioration.Temperature, Physical damage, Pathogens, Relative humidity, Atmospheric composition, Light, Gravity, Rodents and other affects the post harvest quality of horticultural produce.
Important in post-have handling :Using techniques or methods to minimize transpiration loss of fresh or ripen horticultural commodities as much as possible.
Factors affecting: Temperature, Transpiration, Light, moisture/Humidity, weather, insects, fungus, pests, shelf live etc.
Other factors:
transportation facilities, market demand, early or late varieties etc.
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