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The present investigation entitled "Studies on shelf life of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) under different organic packaging materials" was conducted at the Research lab, ITM University, Gwalior (M.P.). Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) is an important and indigenous vegetable crop of India. Brinjal or eggplant belongs to the family of Solanaceae is one of the most common popular and principle vegetable crops grown in India and other parts of the world. Brinjals or eggplants are rich sources of vitamins, minerals and antioxidant capacity. Eggplant is also a natural source of vitamin A; thus, it plays an important role for vision and eye health. Lack of appropriate postharvest storage management practices are reported to cause up to 50% of yield losses of vegetable crops between harvesting and consumption. Packaging is a co-ordinated system of preparing goods for transport, and good for shelf life, distribution, storage, retailing and end use. The experiment was laid out in the Completely Randomized Design with four replications. Each replication was comprised of ten treatment consisting of different packing material viz., news paper, tissue paper, paddy straw, gunny bag, butter paper, banana leaf, CFB, craft paper and caster leaf were used for induced the shelf life of brinjal. Result concluded that the different packing materials viz., newspaper, tissue paper, paddy straw, gunny bag, butter paper, banana leaf, CFB (10 x 10 cm²), craft paper and caster leaf were significantly influenced the shelf life of brinjal. The treatment T3 (Paddy straw) was found the best packing material treatment among all packing material treatments for enhancing shelf life of brinjal and it gave the maximum physical parameters. However, the minimum physical parameters were recorded in treatment T0 (Control). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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