Ultra-Niche Crop Series: Plasticulture Strawberries Postharvest Handling & Food Safety
- First Paragraph:
- Direct market sales give small acreage strawberry producers an advantage in providing ripe, high-quality strawberries. Strawberries are known to have a short postharvest shelf life, and the ability to shorten the length of time from harvest to sale increases fruit quality and the amount of time fruit is edible for the customer. Careful handling of fruit from harvest to sale plays a critical role in the overall quality, perishability and safety of the strawberry.
- Publication Number:
- FS1258
- Author(s):
- Meredith Melendez
- Publisher:
- Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
- Date Published:
- 9/29/2016
- Number of pages:
- 3
- Tags:
- Strawberry, postharvest, food safety, plasticulture
