Event
PhD Oral Defense: Postharvest Quality Management of Cucumber and Eggplant
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 13:15
Macdonald-Stewart Building
MS2-022, 21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, CA
PhD Oral Defense of Patrick Cortbaoui, Bioresource Engineering
One-third of global food produced for human consumption, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tons, is lost or wasted annually. Measuring postharvest losses is an essential operational strategy to enhance postharvest management and to curtail quality loss of fresh horticultural commodity. The goal of this study was to develop and test different methods that characterize and quantify postharvest losses of cucumber and eggplant in St. Kitts-Nevis and Guyana. The study also allowed investigating the influence of temperature and light on quality changes during handling practices of freshly harvested crops.