ISHS Acta Horticulturae 20: Symposium on Vegetable Storage
PREFACE |
| Author: | D. Fritz |
| Abstract:
Whereas, until quite recently, vegetable research was predominantly engaged with problems concerning vegetable production, in many countries the research on post harvest physiology has now been intensified. This has become necessary because harvest techniques, packing methods, transport facilities, and storage of vegetables raise a great number of new problems on the behaviour of vegetables after harvesting. Therefore, this symposium on vegetable storage was held as a beginning of an intensified international cooperation on post harvest physiology of vegetables. Our sincere gratitude goes to the colleagues of the Agricultural College of Norway, particularly to Dr. A. R. Persson and to Mr. G. Weisæth that they made this symposium possible. We are very grateful to the secretary of the symposium, Dr. J. Apeland for such a careful preparation of this meeting, which showed that he is a real specialist in vegetable storage. 32 specialists, coming from 11 countries, attended this meeting and followed the 25 lectures with interest. Ideal conditions for discussion and for opening a way to international cooperation were offered. The papers mainly covered physiological questions. Technical problems, equally playing a decisive part, should be dealt with in the Commission for Horticultural Engineering. Hospitality, favourable accommodation, excursions and the opportunity for getting to know the modern facilities of Vollebekk helped to make this symposium a full success. This meeting resulted in establishing a working group for Vegetable Storage under the chairmanship of Mr.
J. Apeland.
The next symposium to be arranged by this group will probably be held in 1973. It is to be hoped that the working group will be active in future and, if required, further groups engaging with post harvest physiology of vegetables may be organized. | |
