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New Product Expo January 2010
Manual helps small-scale growers improve post-harvest practices
The University of California, Davis, recently published “Small Scale Postharvest Practices: A Manual for Horticultural Crops” on its Web site, making it free to download, according to a news release.
The 267-page publication covers the gamut from selecting harvesting containers to maturity standards, managing storage problems and transportation.
Most of the major fruit, vegetable and nut crops are covered.
To download the publication, visit postharvest.ucdavis.edu/datastorefiles/234-1450.pdf.
The manual also has been translated into nine other languages. For a list of those and other post-harvest publications, visit postharvest.ucdavis.edu.
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