An investigation of the amount of tomato waste in various types of road transport in Khorasan Razavi and Kerman provinces(south of Kerman-Jiroft)

Subject Areas : Journal of Quality and Durability of Agricultural Products and Food Stuffs

Changiz Esfandyati ¹ , Mehrdad Ghavami ² , Vajihe Khezri ³

1 - Professor, Department of Food Science and Industry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tehran University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Food Science and Industry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tehran University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran
3 - M.S, Department of Food Science and Industry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tehran University of Science and Research, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-09-12 Accepted : 2022-11-09 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: Tomato, Waste, Physical and mechanical damage,

Abstract :

Agricultural products have a lot of waste in the stages of production to distribution, which reduces production and increases the need for mechanical imports as an effective and main factor in post-harvest losses.The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive-library research. Sampling was done by census method. The questionnaire was given to 384 members of the statistical sample. Analysis was done using SPSS software using descriptive and inferential statistics.This decrease in quality causes mechanical damage to the product. Tomatoes are more likely to become waste because the fruit is made up of 93 to 95 percent water and 5 to 7 percent solids. In this study, the effect of types of transportation, type of packaging, volume of cargo, type of cargo arrangement and distance of transportation on the amount of tomato waste was investigated. Based on the results obtained in this study, the amount of tomato waste can be reduced. Fruit bruising often occurs during the stages of transportation, transportation, packaging due to the impact on it by moving parts of machines and other factors. Mechanical shocks are recognized as the main and effective factor in post-harvest losses. During the post-harvest stages, dynamic loads are more effective in causing contusions in crops. Because dynamic loads have a greater effect than static loads in terms of quantity and occurrence

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