Agrotechnology

Department of Horticulture, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan

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• Research Article   
  Effect of Different Edible Oil Coating and Storage Life on Post-Harvest Quality of Banana Fruit
  Author(s): Muhammad Asghar, Abdul Mateen Khattak, Waqas Habib, Shahbaz Ahmad, Manzoor Ahmed and Ahmad Farooq*
  
  An experiment was carried out to study the “Effect of different edible oil coating and storage life on post-harvest quality of banana fruit” at Post harvest Laboratory, Department of Horticulture, the University of Agriculture Peshawar Pakistan during the year 2021. Banana fruit CV, Cavendish was obtained from local market Peshawar brought from Hyderabad during the month of April 2021 at physiological mature stage. The experiment was laid out using Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with two factors repeated two times. The fruits were then kept in packaging materials with one apple per bunch. When the fruits were ripened were divided into two groups, one group was coated with edible oil (olive, coconut and butter) and the other is storage life (0,3,6,9,12) and kept at room temperature 260C at RH 90%-95% for 12 days. The data regarding banana fruits coated wit.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9891.24.13.356

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