Post Harvest Management and Value Addition of Fruits and Vegetables ICAR E Course PDF Download

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Post Harvest Management and Value Addition of Fruits and Vegetables ICAR E-Course PDF Download

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Importance of post-harvest technology of horticulture crops.
Maturity indices, harvesting, and post-harvest handling of fruits and vegetables.
Maturity and ripening process – chemicals used for hastening and delaying the ripening of fruits and vegetables.
Factors affecting the ripening of fruits and vegetables.
Pre-harvest factors affect the quality of the post-harvest life of fruits and vegetables.
Factors responsible for the deterioration of harvested fruits and vegetables.
Chemicals used in ripening
Methods of storage-precooling, pre-storage treatments, low-temperature storage, controlled atmosphere storage, hypobaric storage, irradiation, and low-cost storage structures.
Various methods of packaging-packaging materials and transport.
Packaging technology.
Importance and scope of fruit and vegetable preservation in India.
Principles of preservation by heat, low temperature, chemicals, and fermentation.
Unit layout- selection of site and precautions for Hygine condition of the unit.
Preservation through canning, bottling, freezing, dehydration, drying ultraviolet and ionizing radiations.
Preparation of jams, jellies, marmalades, candies, and crystalized and glazed fruits.
Spoilage of canned products- biochemical, enzymatic, and microbial spoilage.
Preservatives and colors are permitted and prohibited in India.
Maturity harvesting of mango