HANDLING AND STORAGE OF HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE IN KENYA

The main requirements for improvements in the handling, presentation and storage of horticultural produce in Kenya are:

1. marketing at the optimum stage of maturity,

2. avoidance of improper handling,

3. use of appropriate containers,

4. provision of adequate transport facilities,

5. grading of produce at collection centres,

6. appropriate packing for internal and for external sales,

7. increase in cold storage facilities.

III Africa Symposium on Horticultural Crops

G.H. Holsten

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1975.49.6