postharvest treatment
- Subject Category
- X Research, Technology and Engineering
- Definition
- The preparation of gathered or harvested commodities, such as food crops, feed crops or wood, for fresh market or processing. This may include, postharvest pest or disease control, various types of preservation techniques, packing, grading, curing (crops) or ripening initiation.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/30828.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/30828
- Used For
- post-harvest treatment
- Broader Term
- postharvest technology
- Related Term
- curing (crops)
- food preparation
- food preservation
- food processing
- food production
- food technology
- postharvest diseases
- postharvest injuries
- postharvest physiology
- Spanish
- tratamiento postcosecha
- Term Number
- 30828