Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops Marley Gibbs & Pablo Steele
- ISBN: 9781788822497
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2021
- List Price : 155
About the Book
The book post harvest technology accepts incredible consideration amid late years since preservation of agricultural create is an essential need to maintain agricultural generation. It includes estimation of deliver, in this manner having incredible breadth for workage at the creation catchments. In this book, the writers have endeavored to solidify distinctive techniques for post harvest technology of products of the soil concentrating on late advances. This book will profit both honing sustenance technologist/post harvest technologist who are scanning for answers to basic specialized inquiries of post harvest technology. Further, it will be valuable to agricultural specialists, nourishment processors, sustenance researcher, analysts and dynamic ranchers and tom the individuals who are working in applicable fields, it is planned to fill a hole in directly accessible post harvest technology writing". A definitive objective of yield creation is to give quality deliver to shoppers at sensible rates. Most new create is profoundly perishable, and postharvest misfortunes are critical under the present techniques for administration in numerous nations. Be that as it may, noteworthy accomplishments have been made amid the most recent couple of years to reduce postharvest misfortunes in crisp deliver and to guarantee sustenance security and wellbeing also. These incorporate progressions in rearing green products for quality change; postharvest physiology; postharvest pathology and entomology; postharvest administration of natural products, vegetables, and blossoms; nondestructive advances to survey deliver quality; insignificant preparing of leafy foods; and additionally developments in bundling and capacity technology of new create.
Contents: 1. Introduction to Post Harvest Technology, 2. Postharvest Losses, 3. Structure and Composition of Fruits and Vegetables, 4. Maturity and Harvesting of Fruits and Vegetables, 5. Packinghouse Unit Operations, 6. Storage of Fruits and Vegetables, 7. Processing of Fruits and Vegetables, 8. Dehydration of Fruits and Vegetables, 9. Fermentation and Fermented Product,
10. Food Packaging, 11. Transportation of Fruits and Vegetables, 12. Overview of Food Quality and Food Safety.
Marley Gibbs is an assistant professor and scientist in the Department of Food Science and Post-Harvest Technology at Agricultural University, and is the author or co-author of 23 peer-reviewed journal articles, 13 book chapters, and 15 conference papers. He has three edited and one authored books to his credit. Marley Gibbs has established an international peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Postharvest Technology. He has been honored to accept the position of editor-in-chief of a bookseries entitled Postharvest Biology andTechnology. He is also an acquisitions editorfor horticultural science. He is an editorial board member of several journals.
Pablo Steele is an assistant professor and scientist in the Department of Food Science and Post-Harvest Technology. He has been associated with postharvest technology and processing aspects of horticultural crops, and he is dynamically involved in teaching (graduate and doctorate students) and research. He has proved himself as an active scientist in the area of postharvest technology. Pablo Steele has been honored to accept the position of editor-in-chief of a bookseries entitled Postharvest Biology and Technology. He is also an acquisitions editor for horticultural science. He has been an active member of the organizing committees of several national and international seminars, conferences, and summits.
