Harvest Maturity for Mango (Mangifera Indica L.) Fruit Based on Accumulated Day-Degrees (˚C), Rainfall Amount (mm), and Physical Fruit Development Properties | Chapter 7 | Research Highlights in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 1

 

Haden, Kent, Palmer, and Keitt mango assortments were contemplated to lay out the relationship of gather time to occasional aggregated day-degrees or intensity units (˚C), day to day precipitation sum (mm), and actual natural product advancement credits with the goal to fix development principles for commodity and neighborhood markets. Randomized Complete Block Design was utilized with four replications. Actual organic product advancement attributes that are assigned as standard reap development values were seen as in every one of the Haden, Kent, Palmer, and Keitt types : weight (640 g, 836 g, 837 g, and 1104 g, separately), length (16.31 cm, 16.19 cm, 21.22 cm, and 19 cm, individually), width (30.97 cm, 33.47 cm, 30.86 cm, and 35.91 cm, individually), volume (598 cm3, 807 cm3, 772 cm3, and 959 cm3, separately), thickness (1.147 g/cm3, 1.076 g/cm3, 1.084 g/cm3, and 1.189 g/cm3, individually), and space (0.25 cm, 0.49 cm, and 0.50 cm, separately). Palmer natural products' stylar-scar end groove force was examined and used as a readiness pointer. For the Haden, Kent, Palmer, and Keitt assortments, file upsides of 0.075 mls, 0.150 mls, 0.425 mls, and 0.116 mls, individually, were recorded as plastic radiated at reap in light of the fact that these qualities concurred with the other actual gather development list values as well similarly as with those of downpour decrease and temperature. This makes temperature, precipitation, and actual characteristics essential non-horrendous factors for deciding mango organic product development file values

Author(s) Details:

Moomin Abu,
Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, University for Development Studies, Nyankpala, Tamale, Ghana.

Nana Sakyiwa Olympio,
Department of Horticulture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Joseph Ofei Darko,
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

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