Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) grows under different weather conditions directly affecting crop maturation. Raw material quality predicting models are important tools in sugarcane crop management; the goal of these models is to provide productivity estimates during harvesting, increasing the efficiency of strategical and administrative decisions. The objective of this work was developing ...

The effect of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 ppm of ethylene, applied for 3, 6, 12, and 24 hours, on the ripening rate of "Hass" avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruits at three stages of maturity was investigated. Ethylene treatments were started either immediately after picking or 2 days later. A sharp peak of ethylene production was found to precede full softening by about 2 days and the occurrence o...

I N much of the Northern Great Plains area native grasses are of paramount importance to livestock production and hays from these grasses constitute the chief roughage harvested to maintain livestock when grazing will not support them. Tonnage of prairie hay harvested in South Dakota in 1948 and 1949, a total of 4,492,000 tons, was twice as great as the harvested tonnage of all tame hays combin...

Postharvest quality in stone fruits is ultimately defined in terms of consumer satisfaction, and includes appearance, texture and flavor, and nutritional value and safety. These result from all decisions and practices beginning with site and cultivar selection, and extending through cultural practices and all stages of postharvest handling. The development of high quality fruit is influenced by...

The oil radish siliques maturation occurs in a non-uniform way, which makes it difficult to define the ideal harvesting time in order to produce high quality seeds. In addition, the high lipid content of the seed may hamper its preservation. To evaluate the effect of the maturation stage at harvesting on the physiological quality and chemical composition of the oil radish seeds stored under dif...

Quality characteristics of tomato fruit will be affected by a number preand post harvest factors. In this study, the effect of maturity stage on post harvest quality characteristics of tomato was investigated. Tomato fruits of the same farmers‟ variety were harvested at mature-green, medium ripe and full-ripe stages. After harvesting, tomato samples were sliced and homogenized in blender for pr...

The goal of this study was to apply artificial neural networks to predict rain-fed wheat yield using meteorological data a few days to few months before harvesting. The climatic observation data used; were mean of daily minimum and maximum temperature, extreme of daily minimum and maximum temperature, sum of daily rainfall, number of rainy days, sum of daily sun hours, mean of daily wind speed,...

The orientation of this research was to evaluate the classic parameters regarding the external and internal quality of tomato fruits cv. 'Brilliant' at different stages of maturity and to define the dynamics of their changes during the ripening in storage at 18 C. Principal component analysis (PCA) and multivariate canonical discriminant analysis (DA) were used to classify tomato samples accor...

When the citrus harvesting robot harvests citruses, mechanical properties of stalks have an important influence on success rate robot. During harvesting, maturity fruits not only determined time but also affected fruit stalks. In this study, changes in cutting force were described during fruits, and effect was clarified, so as to determine with minimum required for by maturity, relevant paramet...

Mango is widely known as a popular fruit in South Asia, including Bangladesh. The country significant producer of different local and exotic varieties mangoes geographic locations. Therefore, study maturity at diverse locations climatic conditions becomes critical for sustainable mango production. In responding to this need, evaluates the variability few selected commercial (Mangifera indica L....