Progressive Horticulture
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue: 1

Effect of post-harvest treatments on the ambient storage of mango cv. Dashehari

  • Author:
  • R. Periyathambi, S. Navprem, Harminder Kaur, S.K. Jawandha
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 104 to 109

Department of Horticulture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India

*Email: navpremsingh@pau.edu

Online published on 30 May, 2013.

Abstract

Dashehari mango fruits were wrapped individually in perforated low density polyethylene bags (LDPE) or heat shrinkable Cryovac film D 995 after dipping in aqueous solutions of calcium chloride and calcium nitrate (2.0 and 4.0%, each) for five minutes to minimize the post harvest losses. Fruit treated with calcium compounds and packed in LDPE film substantially retarded the ripening processes and maintained higher fruit firmness along with lower physiological loss in weight (PLW) as compared to untreated fruits.

Keywords

Calcium chloride, packaging, LDPE, shrink film, quality