Vol. 80 No: 2

Title:
Effects of polyethylene bags, ethylene absorbent and 1-methylcyclopropene on the storage of Japanese pears

Author:
DR. JILL LENNEÉ

pp: 161

Abstract:
How many people who purchase a packet of Kenyan French beans or sugar-snap peas from the supermarket to accompany their Sunday roast are aware of the story behind that packet? Most of these vegetables are grown by 20,000 poor, small-holder farmers scattered throughout rural Kenya, each with no more than 1 ha of land, following strict production regimes including, increasingly, compliance with EUREPGAP. Vegetables are harvested in the morning, graded and delivered to pack-houses near Nairobi airport in the afternoon. Here they are washed, trimmed, weighed and packed into containers with the livery of major European supermarkets. Tonnes of high quality vegetables are then air-freighted the same night and, miraculously, reach the supermarket shelves within 24 h.

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