Post-Harvest & Storage Technology of Cut & Dry Flowers (Paper Code: 17010734)

Importance of post harvest technology, factors responsible for post harvest losses in flowers

post-harvest physiology of flowers

Methods to improve the shelf life of cut flowers, post-harvest handling of cut flowers: grading, packing, transportation and marketing

Flower arrangements, storage of cut flowers, types of storage

Dry flowers: importance, uses and export potential, methods of dehydration of flowers, methods to improve the shelf life of dried flowers; home scale drying flower

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Maturity indices of various flowers

Grading and packing of cut flower

Practices in different types of flower arrangement

Use of chemicals for increasing vase life, cold chain

Drying of flowers through different methods, dry flower arrangements

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