The research on the storage of agricultural products has been ongoing for over a century and its findings allow prolonging the life of any agricultural product. Much progress has been made in this area in the past twenty years; new forms and materials for storage and packaging have been developed as well as innovative technologies for preserving products, based on the ancient principle of maintaining a constant and stable ambient temperature.
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Ripening Systems in Refrigeration Rooms
Did You Know? Ripening (Havhala in Hebrew) is a word taken from the Talmud, which refers to terms relating to physical maturity, mentioning the ripening stages of the fig.
What is the ripening process?
Ripening is the process that generates a rapid ripening of fruits by using chemicals, in other words - artificial ripening.
Ripe fruits are generally not suitable for transport, since they may rot before reaching the end customer. As the shelf life of fruits is very short, they are harvested while being still unripe and undergo a ripening process just before the sale and marketing stage.