Abstract:
The experiment was carried out at the Department of Horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka. The experiment was laid out in a Completely
Randomized Design with three replications. The present research was conducted on the
aspect of shelf life and quality of mango through pre-harvest bagging, ten postharvest
treatments and two postharvest bagging. Two pre-harvest bagging namely, B: Pre-harvest
bagging and B
: Without Pre-harvest bagging were assigned to different post-harvest
treatments, e.g. T
0
0
: Control, T
1
: Hot water dips, T
2
: Hot water + Bavistin, T
Bavistin +
Hot water, T
4
: Bavistin dips, T
5
:
Hot water + calcium chloride,
T
6
:
calcium chloride +
Hot water, T
7
:
calcium chloride dips, T
8
:
3
:
Bavistin + calcium chloride dips and T
:
calcium chloride + Bavistin and postharvest bagging P: Post-harvest bagging and P
:
Without Post-harvest bagging were used in the present study. Results revealed that the
lowest disease incidence (9.6%, 16.55% and 22.85%) was found in pre-harvest bagging
mangoes when treated with Bavistin and hot water dips (BT
) at 9th, 12th and 15th days
after harvest respectively where the longest shelf life was observed in BP treatment
combinations. The best performance was observed in mangoes when treated with preharvest
bagging, postharvest hot water and bavistin dips and postharvest bagging with
perforated poly bags for long term storage quality control, transportation and marketing.
