Relative Humidity

Relative humidity plays a very important role in the long term storage of the fruits and vegetables.Once harvested and sorted, it is advisable to store the undamaged crops immediately. The temperature and relative humidity during storage are critical for maximum storage life.

Optimum storage conditions for example, apples is relative humidity between 90 and 95 percent. Farm fresh agro industries has been successfully achieving relative humidity in all the 10 chambers in excess of 95% . This has been possible only due to the International equipments and installation by International experienced experts. Sealing of each and every chamber is being maintained by regular inspections and maintenance there by ensuring no weight loss, pressure loss and juice losses in the produce stored.

Apple firmness, expressible juice content, weight loss, pH, soluble solids content (SSC), and some other quality parameters were determined instrumentally by the researchers and it has been successfully concluded by them that the RH had significant effects on weight loss, firmness, and SSC values.