Postharvest Handling

This newly revised fourth edition of Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach brings new chapters containing updated knowledge in each area and applications of postharvest research. The revised addition brings back the aspects of pre-harvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality, and features new chapters on packaging, the increasingly important role of transportation and logistics, and re-emphasizes the consideration of postharvest in the context of systems approach. The book also explores current challenges, including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability, and best practices for production to thrive in spite of these challenges. This unique resource provides an overview of the postharvest system and its role in the food value chain, and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process. Written by a team of experts in Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach, this continues to be the most practical and up to date resource to 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. Thoroughly revised and updated fourth editionFeatures new chapters on packaging, transportation and logistics, and postharvest in the context of systems approachBrings aspects of pre-harvest conditions and their effects on postharvest quality