Learn Post Harvest Horticulture with Rahul
Categories: Agriculture, Lecture Notes
About Course
Post-Harvest Horticulture focuses on the handling, storage, and processing of horticultural crops to maintain quality and reduce losses. This course covers post-harvest physiology, preservation techniques, and value addition to ensure food security and market readiness.
What Will You Learn?
- Understand the physiological changes in fruits, vegetables, and flowers after harvest.
- Learn effective storage, packaging, and transportation methods.
- Develop skills in post-harvest treatments to enhance shelf life and quality.
- Explore techniques for value addition and waste management in horticulture.
Course Content
Importance and Status of post-harvest horticulture in Nepal.
Constraints in the development of post harvest enterprises
Causes of post harvest deterioration: Physical, physiological and pathological
Basic differences in the physiology of attached and detached organs
Post harvest physiology
Factor affecting physiological activity of harvested organs
Maturity indices of horticultural commodities
Packing house operation
Post harvest commodity profiles
Post harvest diseases and their control
Post harvest insect pest and their control
Physiological disorders, their causes and preventive measures
Market and marketing systems of perishable commodities
Status and problems of marketing of horticultural produce in Nepal
Post-harvest handling, packaging and transportation
Preservation of fruits and vegetables
Quality of produce and its evaluation
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