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QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF DRAGON FRUIT: A CASE STUDY OF AN AMATEUR ORCHARD IN THAILAND

Article number
1088_43
Pages
267 – 272
Language
English
Abstract
Dragon fruit give certain health benefits including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) relief.
It has also been claimed to have many health benefits in the cyberworld; recently it was titled “super fruit” of the month of August and “super fruit” of 2013. It is essential to produce good quality fruit for the market at least in accordance to GAP and domestic fruit standard in reference to Codex Standard for Pitahayas.
This paper informs about the early period of dragon fruit industry in Thailand.
Problems of pests, cultural practices, harvesting indices, harvesting tools and other factors that affect fruit quality are presented in line with quality management.
The development of good quality dragon fruit production of an amateur, semi-commercial orchard is discussed.

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Authors
S. Kosiyachinda
Keywords
health benefits, IAP, GAP, fruit size, hybridization, ‘Pinky Choice’
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