date:Dec 07, 2012
region of $1-3 per carton.
Late last year researchers used less than 100g of this powder to control ripen 20 tonnes of mangoes during a three day transit from Darwin to Adelaide, says Cameron Turner, of UniQuest, a University of Queensland commercial venture.
This meant that the mangoes were ripe and ready for sale 6 days in advance of those that not ripened in transit.
Cameron says the product has four principal benefits:
Fruit is ready for market quicker, the general quality is improv