Postharvest Center Publications

Small-Scale Postharvest Practices

Small-Scale Postharvest Handling This manual is available for download (pdf format), free of charge, NOW in 12 languages! Printed copies are also available for sale in our Bookstore in English, Spanish, and Arabic. The links for the free downloads are below. The larger files will require lengthy download times.

Afrikaans (5.8 MB pdf)
Amharic (4.7 MB pdf)
Arabic (144 KB pdf)
Bangali (6.95 MB pdf)
Chinese (110.5 MB pdf)
English (112 KB pdf)
French (108 KB pdf)
Indonesian (10.3 MB pdf)
Khmer (10.1 MB pdf)
Punjabi (172.1 MB pdf)
Spanish (168 KB pdf)
Swahili (6.1 MB pdf)
Vietnamese (9 MB pdf)

Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Better Taste

Handy guide for storage of fresh produce. The back of this poster provides more detail about management and safe handling recommendations.

Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Better Taste PDF

Authors: A. Kader, J. Thompson, K. Sylva and L. Harris.

Postharvest Technology for Fruit & Vegetable Produce Marketers

This manual^1/ provides recommendations for harvesting, handling, storing and marketing a variety of crops in small market conditions in California, other states and other countries. It may be downloaded, free, in pdf format. The larger files require lengthy download times.

Postharvest Technology for Fruit & Vegetable Produce Marketers:
Economic Opportunities, Quality & Food Safety

Lisa Kitinoja and James Gorny
Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Part I (128 MB pdf)
Part II (9.49 MB pdf)
Part III (9.51 MB pdf)

^1/A joint publication of the UC Postharvest Outreach Program, Punjab Horticulture Postharvest Technology Center and USAID/ACE Project. 1998.