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The Tunisian date is leading worldwide.
This follows the thesis recently presented Rihab Ben Amor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and have led Encarna Aguayo and Maria Dolores de Miguel.
But there is a plague, known as the moth dátil that interferes with their quality and reduces its international expansion over other markets such as Israel.
That's why so this PhD from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has researched the effect of physical postharvest treatments to control this disease, scientifically known as Ectomyelois ceratoniae and ensure the quality of the fruit.
He says, the Mediterranean concentrates more than 35% of world palm grove.
Among the treatments studied to control this disease are hot water, hot air and freezing.
Furthermore, in a second part of the work it has studied the effects of these treatments on the main postharvest fruit quality parameters such as color, firmness, functional quality, microbiological and sensory of date.
It concludes that new business strategies as conditioning, new physical desinsecantes treatment, packaging, opening new markets or new distribution channels would be positive measures that could be used to address current market constraints, which are the appearance of new producers and the restrictive policies of the EU.
These treatments are presented as alternatives to methyl bromide ensuring control of dates for export and maintaining optimal parameters of fruit quality.
In particular the treatment of hot water of 55 ° C or hot air of 60 ° C and freezing at -18 ° C, recommended producers to maintain fruit quality.
Source: UPCT
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