National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
An investigation was carried out to study the effect of prepackaging materials on post harvest shelf life of Bitter gourd cultivars C1 - Roma, C2- CO 1, C3- MAHY 101, C4- US 6214 and C5- Palee. There were six treatments in factor one Viz.,T1- Perforated poly bag (200 gauge + 1 % ventilation), T2 -Unperforated poly bag (200 gauge), T3 - Wetted gunny bag, T4- Wetted cloth bag, T5- CFB box (1% ventilation) and T6- Control (without any packing) and two treatments in factor two Viz., Refrigerated condition (S1) and Ambient condition (S2). The results revealed that, the treatment T1- Perforated poly bag (200 gauge + 1 % ventilation) showed significantly lowest physiological loss in weight (PLW per cent), highest fruit firmness (Kg cm-1), highest percentage of sound fruits (Per cent) and longest shelf life (days) were recorded in the fruits stored under refrigerated condition (S1).
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