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Postharvest Institute of Pome Fruit 2015

POME FRUIT POSTHARVEST INSTITUTE - 2015

 

The Pome Fruit Postharvest Institute is a high level technical meeting organized by the Freshness Lab for professionals with responsabilities in the different links of the pome fruit supply chain. Each year hot topics related to the reduction of postharvest losses and improvement of consumer satisfaction are discussed.

The Institute operates according to the following values: independent thinking, openness, technical skill, specialization, orientation for results and international scope.

In 2014, 40 participants discussed «Integrated Quality Management in a Chaging Technological Environment». This year's edition is dedicated to:

 

«Nutrition for quality and international logistics»

 

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Decision-makers at the technical and managerial level who have responsabilities in the production, storage, preparation for market and garantee of client and consumer satisfaction of apple and pear.

 

OBJECTIVES

  1. Analyse the opportunities for quality improvement with pre-harvest operations;
  2. Highlight the role of calcium on apple and pear fruit quality and discuss strategies to place calcium into the fruit;
  3. Temperature management in international transportation by truck, railway and maritime;
  4. Discuss future challenges.

 

VENUE

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal

 

DATE

November 24, 2015

 

TIMETABLE: 9:00 – 18:00

 

PROGRAM

Schedule

Topic

9:00-9:30

Reception of participants

9:30-9:40

Kick off: program, objetives and working mode

9:40-10:40

Calcium and fruit quality in apple and pear: theory and practice

10:40-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Nutrition and storage of apple and pear

12:30–14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Temperature management in the supply chain: emphasis on long distance transportation

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:00

Packaging in long distance maritime and terrestrial transportation

17:00-17:50

General discussion. Challenges and topics for the 2016 Pome Fruit Postharvest Institute

17:50-18:00

Fair well

 

WORKING LANGUAGES

English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

 

INSTRUCTORS

Jesus Val

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.

Director of the CSIC's Estación Experimental de Aula Dei in Spain, Dr. Val is specialist in the nutrition of fruit trees, with relevant scientific and technical contributions to the understanding and manipulation of the relationship between calcium nutrition and fruit quality.

 

Chris Bishop

Writtle College, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

Postharvest professor at the Writtle College, Dr. Bishop has a large international consultancy experience in logistics and supply chain of produce, namely on storage and transportation facilities.

 

Domingos Almeida

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Professor and coordinator of the Freshness Lab, works on product and process engineering applicable to fruit and vegetable supply chains.

 

REGISTRATION

150 euros.

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ADISA, Associação para o Desenvolvimento do ISA

NIB: 0045 9080 4022 0927 6463 9

Email your information to adisa@isa.ulisboa.pt.

 

MORE INFORMATION


E:freshness@isa.ulisboa.pt

W: http://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/freshness

Download flyer pdf (in Portuguese).

 

 

 

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