Название: Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach, Fourth Edition
Автор: Editors: Wojciech Florkowski, Nigel Banks, Robert Shewfelt, Stanley Prussia
Издательство: Academic Press
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 688
Размер: 13.42 MB
Язык: English
This newly revised fourth edition of Postharvest Handling brings new and updated chapters with new knowledge and applications from postharvest research. The revised edition brings back the aspects of preharvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality and features new chapters on the increasingly important role of transportation and logistics.
It emphasizes consumers and systems thinking for postharvest chains for fresh produce. This book also explores current challenges—including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability — and best practices for systems to thrive in spite of these challenges. This unique resource provides an overview of postharvest systems and their role in food value chains and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process.Written by a team of experts in Postharvest Systems and Handling, this book continues to be the most practical and up-to-date resource for postharvest physiologists and technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food science, and horticulture along with businesses handling fresh or minimally processed products.
Key Features
Features new chapters on packaging, transportation and logistics, and postharvest in the context of systems approach
Brings aspects of pre-harvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality
Provides an overview of the postharvest system and its role in the food value chain, offering essential tools to monitor and control the handling process
Readership
Postharvest physiologists or technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food sciences, and horticulture along with handlers of fresh or minimally processed products within the fresh produce processing industries will find this to be an invaluable resource. Students majoring in horticulture, food science, business and marketing, consumer economics and nutrition