Abstract
Post harvest losses of potatoes can be minimized by maintaining proper temperature and relative humidity in storage environment and removing the respiratory heat and carbon dioxide. As the farmers in Nilgiri district do not have access to cheaper cold storages, alternative methods of storage taking advantage of prevailing weather conditions were investigated. The diurnal variation in temperature at the place of study was in the range of -3 to 14C in November and 12 to 28C in February. Ventilation at flow rate of 0.14 m 3 / min was adequate to cool the bulk of 250 kg of potatoes to safer limits. The total weight loss at the end of the storage period on the 120 th day was highest in ambient storage and least in cold storage. The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively. A similar trend was observed on the physiological loss of weight in the above listed trails. Rotting and sprouting levels were highest in ambient storage and were observed to be 40 per cent and 100 per cent, respectively on the 120 th day.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Ventilation at 0.14 m 3 / min cooled a 250 kg bulk of potatoes to safer limits.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- Ventilation at flow rate of 0.14 m 3 / mine0
- Outcome
- cool the bulk of 250 kg of potatoes to safer limitse0
- Value
- 0.14 m 3 / mine0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ventilation at flow rate of 0.14 m 3 / min was adequate to cool the bulk of 250 kg of potatoes to safer limits.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 53 per cent under ambient storage.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ambient storagee0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 53e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 9.8 per cent under ventilated storage.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ventilated storagee0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 9.8e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 3.6 per cent under ventilation with evaporative cooled storage.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ventilation with evaporative cooled storagee0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 3.6e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 14.4 per cent under simple ventilation in pits.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- simple ventilation in pitse0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 14.4e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 27.7 per cent under traditional storage pit.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- traditional storage pite0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 27.7e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss after storage was 2.6 per cent under cold storage.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- cold storagee0
- Outcome
- weight lossese0
- Value
- 2.6e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight losses were 53, 9.8, 3.6, 14.4, 27.7 and 2.6 per cent under ambient storage, ventilated storage, ventilation with evaporative cooled storage, simple ventilation in pits, traditional storage pit and cold storage, respectively.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Potato weight loss on day 120 was highest in ambient storage and least in cold storage.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ambient storagee0
- Outcome
- total weight losse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Qualifier
- 120 th daye0
- Comparator
- cold storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The total weight loss at the end of the storage period on the 120 th day was highest in ambient storage and least in cold storage.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Physiological weight loss followed the same storage-treatment trend.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Outcome
- physiological loss of weighte0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A similar trend was observed on the physiological loss of weight in the above listed trails.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Rotting was highest under ambient storage on day 120 at 40 per cent.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ambient storagee0
- Outcome
- Rottinge0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 40 per cente0
- Qualifier
- 120 th daye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rotting and sprouting levels were highest in ambient storage and were observed to be 40 per cent and 100 per cent, respectively on the 120 th day.”
t0“potato”
Claim · model-written summary
sprouting was highest under ambient storage on day 120 at 100 per cent.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- ambient storagee0
- Outcome
- sproutinge0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 100 per cente0
- Qualifier
- 120 th daye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rotting and sprouting levels were highest in ambient storage and were observed to be 40 per cent and 100 per cent, respectively on the 120 th day.”
t0“potato”