Postharvest research is concerned with maintaining crop quality until the crop reaches the consumer. Postharvest physiology includes study of the physiological development of fruits, and their metabolic processes, especially transpiration and respiration. Postharvest improvements aim to slow down these processes, to extend storage life, and improve fruit quality.

Banana; Food Security; Farming Systems; Farm Management; Smallholder Farmers; Livelihoods; Plantain; Post-Harvesting Technology; Disease Control; Plant Ecology; Pests Of Plants; Plant Breeding; Plant Diseases; Plant Health; Plant Production

Postharvest; Agroecologies; Plantains; Bananas; Farming Systems; Metabolic; Consumers

Africa; West Africa

Nigeria