Hodges / Farrell Crop Post-Harvest

Science and Technology, Volume 2: Durables - Case Studies in the Handling and Storage of Durable Commodities
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75037-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Durable commodities are the raw products from which food can bemade and are the staples on which most humans rely; with but a fewexceptions they are the seeds of plants. Volume 1 of thisground-breaking book series (details below) explains how cropsshould be dried, handled, protected from pests and stored bysmaller holders or large-scale enterprises. This second volumepresents a series of case studies on how durable crops are actuallystored and marketed. The compilation of this three-volume work hasbeen supported and is endorsed by the Natural Resources Instituteof the University of Greenwich, U.K.
The editors of this comprehensive and thorough book are wellknown and respected in the world of post-harvest science andtechnology. They have drawn together 36 expert contributors fromEurope, North America, Asia, Australasia, South America and Africato provide a huge wealth of information on major world cropsincluding rice, maize, wheat, barley, sorghum, beans, cowpea,oilseeds, peanuts, copra, coffee, cocoa, dried fruit and nuts, anddried fish.
Crop Post Harvest, Volume 2 is an essential purchase forcereal technologists, food scientists and technologists,agricultural scientists, entomologists, post-harvest cropprotection specialists and consultants, commercial growers,shippers and warehousing operatives, and personnel of packagingcompanies. Researchers and upper-level students in food science,food technology, post-harvest science and technology, cropprotection, applied biology, and plant and agricultural scienceswill find a huge amount of great use within this landmarkpublication and the three-volume series as a whole. All librariesin research establishments and universities where these subjectsare studied and taught should have several copies of each on theirshelves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodges, Rick

Farrell, Graham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Rice.
2. Maize.
3. Wheat.
4. Malting Barley: Europe.
5. Sorghum.
6. Common Beans: Latin America.
7. Cowpea: United States of America.
8. Miscellaneous Oilseeds.
9. Peanuts.
10. Copra: The Philippines.
11. Coffee.
12. Cocoa: West Africa (Ghana).
13. Dried Fruit and Nuts: United States of America.
14. Cured Fish.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Rick Hodges is Reader in Post-Harvest Entromology at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, U.K. and is Secretary of the Global Post-Harvest Forum (PhAction). Dr Graham Farrell is Director of Plant Clinic Limited, a U.K. based company, providing advice on plant health based on sustainable principles.