Recently attention has been focused on cane quality as a means of improving the overall performance of the South African sugar industry. Work by the SMRI pioneered the use of ethanol as an indicatorand showed a lossof between 2 and 3% of the mass of sucrose in fresh cane for every 1 000 ppm ethanol on brix. Results obtained during the implementation of this procedure routinely during the 1991 s...

Agricultural residues are produced in large quantities throughout the world. Approximately, 1kg of residue is produced for each kilogram of grains harvested. This ratio of grain/residue translates into an excess of 40 billion ton of crop residue produced each year in the USA. These residues are renewable resources that could be used to produce ethanol and many other value added products. In thi...

Recently attention has been focused on cane quality as a means of improving the overall performance of the South African sugar industry. Work by the SMRI pioneered the use of ethanol as an indicator and showed a loss of between 2 and 3% of the mass of sucrose in fresh cane for every 1 000 ppm ethanol on brix. Results obtained during the implementation of this procedure routinely during the 1991...

Bananas are cultivated in more than 120 countries and on the five continents in tropical and subtropical areas [7]. Bananas production is the fourth most significant of the world in terms of tonnage, after rice, wheat and maize. In 2013, world production was estimated at more than 106 million tons, of which 2 million produced in Caribbean [8]. However, only a small part is produced for commerci...

Seventeen blackberry cultivars were evaluated for postharvest fruit-rot resistance in June and July, 2003. Fully mature, undamaged berries were harvested on two dates for each genotype at the University of Arkansas Fruit Substation, Clarksville. After transporting in chilled coolers to the Plant Pathology Department in Fayetteville, two replications of 10 berries of each genotype were placed in...

Sucrose losses after cane harvest is one of the most important problems in sugarcane crop particularly for millers and farmers. Loss in sucrose after harvesting causes low sugar recovery in mills. There are a large number of factors associated with low sugar recovery such as varietal type, atmospheric conditions, time lag, etc. Sucrose losses occurring in postharvest sugarcane are generally of ...

The importance of cassava has been realized as a high energy human food, animal feed and as an industrial raw material for sweeteners, ethanol and various other chemicals. Its industrial potential, however, has still not been tapped to any great extent. Broadening of the post-harvest utilization of cassava remains rather difficult due to several factors. The development of costand energy-effect...

Since 1974 the Decco-Tiltbelt Division of Penn walt Corporation has been conducting research programs on the experimental fungicide l-[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-(2propenyloxy) ethyl]-IH-imidazole (Imazalil) at their Mon rovia, California Research Laboratory. Tests have proven the efficacy of this fungicide against postharvest diseases of citrus. It is especially effective in sporulation and deca...