Effect of packing units during long distance transportation on the quality and shelf-life of tomatoes under commercial supply conditions

Cherono, K.; Workneh, Tilahun Seyoum

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2020.1292.22

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“…The GDP of Zhuxi County in 2019 was RMB 8.45 billion, and the income of the primary industry accounted for more than 27% of the total. Sending industrial and commercial capital to the countryside promoted the development of local economies, while profit-seeking enterprises converted to cash crops [73,74]. In other areas of Hubei Province, the correlation coefficient between economic progress and NGP was not significant.…”

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of “Non-Grain Production” in Hubei Province Based on a Non-Grain Index

Wang

Song

2023

Sustainability

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Non-grain production (NGP) on cultivated land has become a common phenomenon due to the prosperity of the rural economy and the optimisation of the agricultural structure. However, the excessive use of cultivating land for NGP has threatened food production and the sustainable use of cultivated land. To halt this trend and to ensure food security, the authors of this paper applied a novel non-grain index to measure NGP, which could reflect multiple NGP activities; designated Hubei Province as its object of research; and revealed NGP’s spatio-temporal patterns of the past 30 years. We then assessed the characteristics of NGP based on spatial autocorrelation analysis, the Theil index, and geographically weighted regression. The results showed that the value of the non-grain index grew from 0.497 to 1.113 as NGP increased significantly in Hubei Province. The number of high-NGP counties increased, spatial agglomeration became obvious, and the eastern and western sides of Hubei Province witnessed an observable growth in NGP. As a result, the NGP in the eastern and western regions overtook production in the central region. Despite a series of historical subsidy policies and agricultural modernisation initiatives that promoted the planting of grain crops, the policy of “grain on valuable cultivated land” could be better implemented. We conclude by making some suggestions for reducing NGP and protecting cultivated land.

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Section: Mechanism Of Factors Affecting Ngpmentioning

confidence: 93%

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of “Non-Grain Production” in Hubei Province Based on a Non-Grain Index

Wang

Song

2023

Sustainability

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“…This is reasonable since IMR corresponds to planting vegetables, fruits, oil, sugar, and raw agricultural materials, which does not require stripping the soil tillage layer or other engineering activities, thus requiring less labor input than the other three categories. In addition, vegetables and other cash crops are not suitable for long-term storage and, therefore, if needed, are quickly sent to supermarkets or processing plants via improved transportation [63]. Moreover, increased tourism has increased the demand for diversified cash crops.…”

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Unraveling the Causal Mechanisms for Non-Grain Production of Cultivated Land: An Analysis Framework Applied in Liyang, China

Cheng

Tao

Huang

et al. 2022

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The excessive use of cultivated land for non-grain production activities is considered a threat to grain security. This study presents an analysis framework on unraveling the causal mechanisms for non-grain production of cultivated land. We apply the analysis framework in Liyang, which is located in the Yangtze River Delta and is also an important “national grain base” county of China. We first determine four non-grain production categories as immediately recoverable (IMR), simple-engineering recoverable (SER), engineering recoverable (ENR), and irrecoverable (IR) based on the effect of non-grain activities on the degree of soil damage of the cultivated land, especially the difficulty of restoring the capacity for grain production. Then, we analyze the spatial pattern features for non-grain production of four given categories at the village scale. Furthermore, we reveal the mechanisms of the four categories using multiple linear regression modeling with geophysical, demographic, economic, and policy variables. The results show that the total non-grain area of cultivated land in Liyang is 28,158.38 hectares, and the non-grain rate is 48.09%, ranging from 10.59% to 96.75% among villages. The IMR, SER, ER, and IR rates are 11.81%, 17.76%, 15.07%, and 3.45%, respectively. There is also a significant neighborhood effect among the four categories, indicating that non-grain production activities have a stimulating effect on the surrounding operators of cultivated land. Farming conditions such as the proportion of irrigated farmland and economic variables such as the tourism scale have stronger effects on non-grain production than demographic variables. Policy variables, especially the cultivated land transfer policy, neither inhibit nor promote non-grain production. Based on these findings, we make policy suggestions for reducing non-grain production activities and protecting cultivated land. This analysis framework contributes to a new perspective for unraveling the causal mechanisms and making categorical governance decisions of non-grain production on cultivated land at the village level.

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Development of an antifungal active packaging containing thymol and an ethylene scavenger. Validation during storage of cherry tomatoes

Álvarez-Hernández

Martínez−Hernández

Castillejo

et al. 2021

Food Packaging and Shelf Life

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Effect of packing units during long distance transportation on the quality and shelf-life of tomatoes under commercial supply conditions

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of “Non-Grain Production” in Hubei Province Based on a Non-Grain Index

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of “Non-Grain Production” in Hubei Province Based on a Non-Grain Index

Unraveling the Causal Mechanisms for Non-Grain Production of Cultivated Land: An Analysis Framework Applied in Liyang, China

Development of an antifungal active packaging containing thymol and an ethylene scavenger. Validation during storage of cherry tomatoes

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