APT 4.0: Eps. 6: Pak na harvest your best bet

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APT 4.0: Eps. 6: Pak na harvest your best bet

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5-6-2021

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Prolonging the shelf life of our vegetables once they are harvested is one of the problems of many of our vegetable growers. Episode 6 of the Aggie Ps Talk 4.0: Urban Gardening helps solve this by featuring postharvest handling tips and storage of our harvested pinakbet vegetables namely: eggplant, ampalaya, okra, squash, tomato, and onion. Proper storage of these vegetables would lengthen their freshness prior to cooking and the nutritional content of the said vegetables would remain intact.

Serving as resource speaker for the episode titled, “Pak na harvest your best bet” was Ms. Daphne Cassandra H. Gonzales, university research associate at the Postharvest Horticulture Training and Research Center (PHTRC).

During her talk, she explained that crops are classified as perishable and durable crops. Perishable crops include fruits, vegetables, root and bulb crops, cutflower, herbs, and medicinal crops. Durable crops, on the other hand, includes cereals, grains, and legumes.

Focusing on perishable crops, Ms. Gonzales shared that postharvest handling of pinakbet vegetables passes through different steps that perishable crops are subjected to from harvest prior to sale or use while retaining the characteristics of living things and maintaining their fresh form. This process starts from harvesting and trimming, cleaning, sorting, packaging, transporting, and storage.

Ms. Gonzales also discussed two alternative storage methods, namely: Evaporative Cooling Technique, wherein heat from outside is blocked by wet cloth and lowers temperature by 3-6 °c; and Modified Atmosphere Packaging, wherein respiration rate and ethylene production is considerably retarded, hence extending the storage life of the vegetables.

Knowing the importance of postharvest handling would enable us to contribute to reducing food loss and most importantly, to food waste.

Watch the recorded webinar through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokRpKQFAwg

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College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Language

English

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Aggie Ps Talk 4.0: Urban Gardening Pinakbet Series

APT 4.0: Eps. 6: Pak na harvest your best bet

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