Course Summary:

This course teaches advanced methods and techniques of handling agricultural products starting from harvesting, packing, storing and, marketing while maintaining a high quality of the product and preventing disease and deterioration.

Syllabus:

• Introduction + postharvest losses+ Controlled and Modified Atmosphere.
• Temperature management
• Ethylene and ripening.
• Postharvest pathology.
• Postharvest of tropical fruits.
• Harvest indices.