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A summary of procedures for growers to improve post harvest practices

This fumigation guide has been written to tell, and show, users how to do fumigations with the fumigants phosphine and methyl bromide using gas proof sheets to treat: -bag-stacks of grain, and other commodities -loaded freight containers -other products or cargoes, such as timber and machinery, that can be enclosed [...]

Details of postharvest handling practices for low-input and/or small-scale handlers of horticultural commodities

Les pertes apres recolte depassent 30 pour cent dans beaucoup de pays en developpement. Elles sont, pour la plupart, dues a des infrastructures inexistantes ou inadaptees au maniement, au stockage et au traitement des denrees. Les technologies relatives a la transformation ainsi que le manque d'informations ou un savoir-faire inapproprie [...]

The manual has been prepared by Elke Peiler of ICUC in consultation with Sue Azam-Ali, other members of ICUC and the national partners of five targeted countries in Asia. It is intended to be a source of technological background information on post-harvest handling, processing, storage, pack-aging, hygiene and for business [...]