Enhancing the post-harvest life of carnations

Carnations are highly sensitive cut flowers. They need to be transported without exposure to ethylene and to prevent the build-up of ethylene concentration ventilation holes are provided in the sides of boxes.
Researchers at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India studied the wrapping up of the flowers with polyethylene sleeves of 50 gauge thickness, butter paper, newspaper and packed in corrugated fibre board boxes with different percentage of ventilations. They found that wrapping in polyethylene sleeves of 50 gauge thicknesses and placing in boxes with 4% ventilation is the best packaging method. An article about the research is published in Progressive Horticulture.
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