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Packhouse Action Group

The PAG was established to serve the pome fruit industry.
It conducts projects and seminars for the benefit of packhouses.

Hortgro Packhouse Action Group 01
Hortgro Packhouse Action Group 02
OBJECTIVES OF THE PAG:

  • Stimulate innovation/ testing and introduction of new technologies/adoption of proven technologies
  • Identify issues to make industry more competitive – world leaders
  • Identify priorities /address industry needs through research
  • Address availability of capacity/skills/ education/information dissemination
  • Serve as an industry communication forum to producers and stakeholders, including Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF)
  • Market/logistics intelligence
FIELDS OF OPERATION INCLUDE:

  • Engineering
  • Packaging
  • Environmental footprint
  • Packhouse
  • Post-Harvest
  • Logistics
  • Communication

Download Documents

Postharvest

2022

HORTGRO PAG - May 2022 - Tito Spaldi [ Download ] [ View ] 12.99 MB
Ozone as a PostHarvest Tool - Gas At Site - Andrew Brink [ Download ] [ View ] 1.08 MB
Protocol for Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere Storage of SA Apple and Pear Culivars (2017) [ Download ] [ View ] 1.06 MB

2020

Hortgro Postharvest Pome Fruit Research - Wiehann Steyn [ Download ] [ View ] 1.18 MB
CO2 in apple and pear storage - Robert Prange [ Download ] [ View ] 10.41 MB
β€˜Cripps’ Pink’ internal browning and long term storage - H Tayler, E Crouch, D Viljoen [ Download ] [ View ] 3.45 MB
In control with my fruit - Niels Remmelink [ Download ] [ View ] 6.20 MB
Optimum storage conditions for β€˜Abate Fetel’ pears - AnΓ©l Botes [ Download ] [ View ] 1.50 MB

2019

CA Manual Revised (31 January 2019) [ Download ] [ View ] 2.54 MB
β€˜Quo Vadis’ – long term CA storage regimes of Cripps’ Pink apples and fruit quality [ Download ] [ View ] 3.43 MB
Long-term controlled atmosphere storage techniques on β€˜Granny Smith’ apples [ Download ] [ View ] 5.42 MB
DCA adoption in the USA [ Download ] [ View ] 3.07 MB
Optimum storage conditions for β€˜Abate Fetel’ pears [ Download ] [ View ] 3.27 MB
The effect of DPA on internal browning of Cripps’ Pink apples [ Download ] [ View ] 2.39 MB
CA Technology and Low Oxygen Research Update [ Download ] [ View ] 1.58 MB

2018

RLOS on Packhams’ Triumph [ Download ] [ View ] 1.10 MB
The effect of DPA [ Download ] [ View ] 1.31 MB
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