Introduction

• Packing is the technology or process that ensures adequate protection and safe delivery of a produce from the producer to the consumers.
• The package is the structure designed to contain produce. The act of putting commodities in a package is packing.
• In packing series of steps which includes all those practices done after harvest to prepare the commodity for market or for long term storage ex. Cleaning, grading, fumigation, packing, labeling etc.
• Depending on the kind of produce additional activities may include ex.de-greening, curing, washing, bunching, chemical treatment and pre-cooling etc.

Functions of packing

• Contains a convenient size or amount of a produce-a package assembles the produce into convenient unit for easy handling.
• Protects produce in transit from physical damage, which affects external and internal appearance.
• Displays the produce and promotes its sale in self-service stores.