- Author: Christine Huang
Once again, the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center is excited to announce another successful Postharvest Technology of Horticultural Crops Short Course. This year's course marks our 37th anniversary! Our short course comprises two separate weeks of instruction. The first week is spent on intensive lectures, discussions, and hands-on laboratory sessions on the UC Davis campus. The optional...
- Author: Mary E. Reed
On Thursday, August 21, at a General Assembly during the International Horticultural Congress in Brisbane, Australia, Dr. Adel Kader was made an ISHS Fellow posthumously. It was a bittersweet experience for Dr. Beth Mitcham, Director of the Postharvest Technology Center, as she received the award on his behalf. Beth shared, "Adel was a strong champion of the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center, and worked tirelessly to improve the postharvest quality of horticultural products and reduce postharvest losses worldwide."
Dr. Mitcham invited Drs. Mary Lu Arpaia, Jeff Brecht and Jingtair Siriphanich, Adel's first three...
- Author: Pam Devine
The Postharvest Technology Center scholarship recipient, Chiamaka Nwammadu, went home to Owerri, Nigeria a changed woman in late June.
The Center received 118 applications and awarded Chiamaka the 2014 Postharvest Technology Short Course scholarship this year as she impressed the reviewing panel with her future plans and showed how much she, and her associates, would benefit from the opportunity.
The scholarship, funded primarily by a trust created by Leonard and Marseille Morris, aims to provide an individual from a developing country the opportunity to learn about managing the postharvest handling of horticultural crops with an intent to take that information back to their home country and utilize it to benefit...
- Author: Mary E. Reed
This was the second year that the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center was able, with thanks to major funding from an endowment created by Leonard and Marseille Morris, to provide a scholarship to the Postharvest Technology Short Course. The goal of the scholarship is to "provide an individual from a developing country the opportunity to learn about managing the postharvest handling of horticultural crops with an intent to take that information back to their home country and utilize it to benefit others in their region."
After an intensive review of the more than fifty applications received, Hussein Yunus Alhassan from Ghana was selected. The following is his report:
The Postharvest Technology of...
- Author: Mary E. Reed
Four Postharvest Specialists from the UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center traveled to Sarajevo, October 24-28, to present a week-long Postharvest Technology training. Drs. Beth Mitcham, Marita Cantwell, Mary Lu Arpaia and Michael Reid presented 39 instructional sessions over a three-and-a-half day period. Zdenec Svec from the Czech Republic also presented a talk focusing on regional marketing and trade issues. The training session was followed by a 1-1/2 day field tour visiting a number of postharvest processing facilities. The training was the result of a herculean effort led by Filip Stoyanovic, Director of a USAID Regional Competitiveness Initiative, and supported by eleven USAID projects as well as funding from the governments...