A general advanced
course for all master's students in the department. It deals briefly with
dealing with horticultural crops after their maturity. It is considered a
complementary course to the university course under the same name. This course
contains a number of vocabulary: the ripening of horticultural crops and the
deterioration of horticultural crops after harvest, the changes that occur
during the growth and ripening of fruits, respiration and its role in the
post-harvest stage, ethylene and its cycle in the post-harvest stage,
preparation of fruits for circulation and storage, transpiration and its
effects on Fruits after collection, methods of handling, packing and
refrigerated transportation of horticultural products, methods of presentation
and marketing and their impact on the physiology of horticultural crops,
initial cooling, storage of horticultural crops and the physiological and
pathological diseases of horticultural crops after collection.
Successfully completing
the course, the student will be able to:
1. It shows harvesting
(picking) and harvesting time
2. Differentiate
between the changes that occur in the fruits from the time of harvest to the
stage of consumption
3. Demonstrates
transportation, filling, unloading, cleaning and packaging processes
4. Distinguish between
storage methods and energy accounts
5. Determine the
physiological phenomena and changes that occur in horticultural crops at the
post-harvest stage, as well as modern methods of harvesting, packing,
unloading, cleaning, marketing and trading of horticultural products.
