Guide Cooling and Storage Pear

Optimal temperatures, storage times, and relative humidity levels for pear; • Temperature: 0°C • Relative Humidity: 90% – 98% • Long-term storage must be harvested before maturation begins. Pears that are picked too early will no longer have a chance to mature. • Apart from that, the danger in pears is that too much moisture loss is worthless; in which case the pears shrink especially around the stem.

STORAGE Storage is the holding of the product on conditions that will preserve quality for later consumption, processing or marketing. Factors Affecting Success in Storage: • Pre-harvest effects: variety and rootstock, climate and soil, cultural processes • Harvest and post-effects: harvest time, harvest care, sorting and sorting, transport and early storage • Storage and after effects: Properties of successfully stored fruits, storage temperature, percent moisture, air movement and stacking (depot control and depot extraction), deterioration after harvest (physiological deterioration, diseases, depot disinfection) and reduction The best storage temperatures of pear varieties are different. The temperature must be -0.5 to 0.6 ° C for a long storage. Pears generally eat at -3 ° C during eating. For her, the heat must be protected. For the high quality of the pears stored in the warehouse, it should be expected to mature in a place with a moisture content of 18- 21 ° C and 80-85% after the depot is removed before being offered for sale. Then they can be offered for sale. Under ordinary storage conditions pears can be dangerous to keep the air relative humidity high. Keeping the noodles at 70% is enough. This can be 90% in cold weather storage.