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    612-822-4611

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Recent Innovations in Post-harvest Preservation and Protection of Agricultural Products

Recent Innovations in Post-harvest Preservation and Protection of Agricultural Products

E. Maier, Dirk

Hardcover

General Science

ISBN10: 3036532919
ISBN13: 9783036532912
Publisher: Mdpi Ag
Published: Mar 31 2022
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The global food supply chain relies on engineered systems, operational practices, and logistics to preserve, protect, process, and deliver agricultural crops along complex supply lines from farmers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries to markets around the world. Food and nutrition security is compromised by post-harvest losses (and food waste) that have been estimated to be as high as 20% in durable and 40% in perishable crops. Preserving crops using technologies and practices such as timely harvesting, evaporative cooling, cold and frozen storage, drying, and dehydrating, and protecting crops using technologies and practices such as damage-less handling, controlled and modified atmosphere storage, non-chemical heat and gas treatment, plant-derived protective films for individual fruits and vegetables, and improved packaging containers are critical to preserving nutrients, improving livelihoods, and realizing an efficient food system.

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