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The Irta organizes a workshop on the scalded in postharvest
06/05/2011
May 6, 2011
In recent years, the legislation and the commercial demands are limiting the use of plant protection products for the treatment of post-harvest of fruit, with a higher pressure on the traditional antiescaldantes that is now in use and that could disappear in the near future.
The development of more innocuous chemicals or its application in field, as well as the possibility of applying new techniques of poscoseha to control the factors that alter the fruit based on physical methods (heat, low content of oxygen, dynamic atmospheres)(, etc.) they open the door to a new methodology of work.
The day of poscosecha with title 'will be able to control the escaldado in the future?' And that will celebrate the next 17 May in the Upper Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSEA) of Lleida has by aim explain and debate widely this thematic.
The registration to the day is compulsory and has a cost of 35. The interested can put in contact with the Office of the Day before 13 May. Tel. 973 032 850; Ext. 1508 (Pink Mrs. Hill, rosa.collado@irta.cat).
