FACILITIES AND PACKAGING ENVIRONMENTS FOR CUT FLOWERS

Freshly cut flowers are among the most perishable of commercial agricultural products. In order to provide the consumer with a high quality fresh flower, the grower, the shipper, the carrier, the wholesaler, and the retailer must exercise extreme care in harvesting, packaging, transporting, and handling of this commodity. Temperature control, and to a lesser extent, atmosphere control are particularly important in maintaining the quality of flowers during storage and transport.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 1972 Conference on Handling Perishables, which was sponsored by the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of Florida and the US Department of Agricultural; and held on Jan. 9-11, 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Florida, Gainesville

  Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
  Gainesville, FL  United States  32601
• Authors:
  • Uota, M
• Conference:
  • Presented at the 1972 Conference on Handling Perishables, which was sponsored by the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of Florida and the US Department of Agricultural; and held on Jan. 9-11, 1972.
• Publication Date: 1972-1

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 216-

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Perishables
• Uncontrolled Terms: Flowers
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050121
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1974 12:00AM