Atemoya is a perishable fruit with highly sensitive to chilling injury, which impedes its long-distance trading. This technology integrated reducing field pathogen infections, improving precooling efficiency,utilizing controlled atmosphere transport technology. We successfully prolonged storage life of atemoya to 3-4 weeks. The pilot tests demonstrated that the fruits have been successfully shipped to Kuala Lumpur, Dubai,Canada. The arrival salability was over 90 with 7 day shelf life. We recommend to apply this technology if atemoya will be transport for more than 10 days.

Through applying integrated disease management during fieldpostharvest stages to reduce decay ratio to 20-30, enhancing precooling efficiency vis forced-air cooling systemshortening time span by 70, developing low power consumption, easy to carry, low-cost gas monitoring equipment with sufficient measurement range,adapting controlled atmosphere marine container to create a low O2 plus high CO2 to suppress the fruit metabolismethylene production, we successfully overcame the current bottleneck that atemoya cannot be transported for distant market (4 weeks).

This technology is recommended to apply if atemoya will be transported for more than 10 days. Several benefits provided by current technology are as follows: postharvest life are up to 3-4 weeks, the arrival salability is more than 90,the shelf life is 5-7 days. Moreover, our pilot tests demonstrated that atemoya was successfully shipped to Kuala Lumpur, Dubai,Canada. The technology had no problem to merge into current packinghouse operation process. The cost-benefit analysis exhibited net benefit of using this technique in atemoyas industry.

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