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India is the world’s second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, however, in
comparison to developed countries, fewer than 2% of fruits and vegetables are
processes. Food is one of the most basic need for survival. Since, the pre-historic
times people have been knowledge of processing and preserving food. Recent,
improvements have been aimed at being both cost effective and practically possible.
Post harvest Technology is an essential branch of agriculture and its importance
grows in the field of horticulture because horticultural crops are highly perishable in
nature. Although, Post harvest technology has been used throughout the world from
time immemorial, the business in India is still infancy.

The book is intended for students studying in horticulture science. This book is
written in light of the current situation. We have taken every effort to describe
each and every Post harvest technology topic as accurately as possible. Efforts
have been made to present each chapter in a lucid style for quick and effortless
understanding. This edition of the book consists of a theory portion comprising nine
(9) chapters covering UGC approved new syllabus of CBCS followed by different
universities. The book will be extremely beneficial to Post harvest Technologists,
food technologist, teachers, undergraduate and post graduate students from various
agricultural universities.It is also useful for preparing for interviews in the smallest
amount of time.

The publication of this book will be useful to undergraduate students, post graduate
students in vegetable science and post harvest technology of students. At this juncture,
we would like to thank all the staff and students of the Department of Vegetable
Science, Horticultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore who
extended cooperation during preparation of this book. We express our deep sense
of gratitude to M/s Narendra Publishing House, New Delhi, for their interact and
support taking up this assignment and bringing out this publication in a nice manner.