Aflatoxins are one of many natural occurring mycotoxins that are found in soils, foods, humans, and animals. Derived from the Aspergillus flavus fungus, the toxigenic strains of aflatoxins are among the most harmful mycotoxins. Aflatoxins are found in the soil as well as in grains, nuts, dairy products, tea, spices and cocoa, as well as animal and fish feeds.1 Aflatoxins are especially problema...

Radiations and radioisotopes are used in agricultural research to induce genetic variability in crop plants to develop improved varieties, to manage insect pests, monitor fate and persistence of pesticides, to study fertilizer use efficiency and plant micronutrient uptake and also to preserve agricultural produce. Use of radiation and radioisotopes in agriculture is one of the most important fi...

the study assessed the post-harvest management information needs of yam farmers in kogi state. interview schedules were used to collect data from 189 yam farmers who were randomly selected from the four agricultural zones of the state (zone a, b, c and d) by using multistage random sampling techniques. the data collected were subjected to descriptive statistics and binary logit regression. resu...

strawberries have a very thin layer coating that easily disappears and are perishables a lot pre-harvest as such nearly 30 to 40 percent of strawberry fruits will be wasted at interval between harvest and consumption. in this study have been investigated the effect of using psyllium mucilage (plantago psyllium) in concentrations of 6.25, 12.5 and 25 ml/l as well as arabic gum and arjan as edibl...

background & aim: increasing economic role of medicinal herbs in recent society and complexity of modern technologies in production (planting and harvesting), transportation, storage, processing, quality evaluation, distribution, marketing and consumption of these products require a thorough understanding of their physical properties. coefficient of friction of plant on the various surfaces...

leptinotarsa decemlineata (say) and lasioderma serricorne f. are destructive pre-harvest and post-harvest pests of many plants in the family solanaceae, and stored foodstuffs and non-food items, respectively. in this study, some biochemical characteristics of cellulase in the larval digestive tract of these pests were studied. endo-β-1, 4-glucanase activity was measured against the substrate ca...

the yield and quality features of raisin are affected by various factors especially har-vest date and dipping solutions. combinations of different harvest date (four harvest dates) and post harvest alkaline emulsion (three alkaline solutions) were tested in vitis vi-nifera l. cv ‘paycamy’ green raisin production in kashmar, khorasan province of iran. such raisin quantitative and qualitative cha...

The most damaging insect pests are those that attack the pods and result in either damage or contamination of the processed product. The European corn borer (ECB) and to a lesser extent the corn earworm (CEW) are the major pod feeding pests with damage primarily from 2 generation ECB and late flights of CEW in August/September. Damage from both species occurs from flowering to harvest, creating...