- Author: Mary E. Reed
We are delighted to announce that Stefan Jan Michel Droogendijk from the Netherlands is the first person to complete the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center's Produce Professional Certificate Program. He completed the entire program of 120 points (hours) in just ten months. Despite his speedy completion of the program, Stefan will continue to have access to the online site, including videos of lectures and updated course handouts for the full four years.
Stefan initially attended the 2013 Postharvest Technology Short Course and was inspired by what he learned. In October he enrolled in the Produce Professional Certificate program, and a month later attended the Produce Safety Workshop, one of the required...
- Author: Diane Nelson
- Contact: Mary E. Reed
- Contact: Elizabeth Jeanne Mitcham
It takes a lot of knowledge and training to successfully handle produce from farm to plate. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a mechanism that helped produce industry employers recognize qualified applicants and helped applicants validate their postharvest qualifications?
Now there is, thanks to the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center’s new Produce Professional Certificate Program, the first of its kind in the world. Led by a cadre of the most respected experts in postharvest technology, the certificate program covers everything from safety, new technologies, physiology, harvesting, cooling, transportation, ripening, marketing fresh produce and more.
Participants view a lettuce field-packing...
