Winter jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill. cv. Dongzao) is highly popular due to its attractive taste and flavor of fruits. However, cultivation facing a serious obstacle for the substantial decrease in fruit soluble solids contents. In this study, four commonly-used fertilization types, including organic manure application (OM), combined NPK fertilizer (OC), at high rate (HC) low (LC) were selected ...

Aim of this experimental work was to investigate the possibility of producing fruit powders without employing drying aid and to investigate the effect of drying temperatures on the final powder characteristics. Raw fruit materials (banana puree, strawberry puree and blueberry concentrate) were processed using three different drying techniques each operating at a different temperature conditions...

so portable, that it would be most useful on field service. It is prepared from green mangoes. The unripe fruit is cut into several pieces and dried in the sunshine, the kernel and peel being rejected. In this state it is Kuttaicalled huttai, (emphasis on last syllable,) but to preserve it properly, it must be ponnded to a fine powder, and rammed into an air-tight tin canister, or wide-mouthed ...

Low working efficiency is an important reason for the limited application of traditional aspirated-air type jujube fruit pickup machine. In this study, a provoke-suction harvester ground (PSH) was designed, based on principle negative pressure suction after shoveling mechanically. The main parameters were analyzed and structures key devices designed. Then, three-factor three-level Box–Behnken m...

Studies were undertaken to determine the comparative efficacy of native biocontrol agents viz., Pseudomonas fluorescens isolate PS-4, Trichoderma harzianum isolate TH-H-3 and T. virens isolate TV-K-3 @ 5X10 cfu/g talc; organic amendments viz., neem seed powder @ 250 mg/kg soil and farmyard manure @ 8 1500 mg/kg soil; carbofuran @ 33.4 mg/kg soil, topsin-M @ 1.4 mg/kg soil and bavistin @ 2.0 mg/...

In this study the physical and thermal properties of baobab (Adansonia digitata) fruit pulp powder which are essential for designing engineering processes, material handling, storage, equipment design and fabrication were determined. The physical properties, namely, mean particle size, bulk density, true density and porosity were determined. Also, angle of repose and coefficient of friction wer...