Post-harvest Pest and Disease Management

Dear Colleagues,

Almost all agricultural commodities pass through certain post-harvest stages, either as raw or as processed commodities. Storage is a critical stage of agricultural production, given that storage conditions and characteristics are determinative of global food security and availability. During storage, transportation, and processing, commodities can be heavily damaged by pests and diseases, which can cause massive losses and considerable qualitative degradations, which may result, in a very short period of time, in the product becoming unsuitable for further processing, or even dangerous to human health. Based on the above, we initiated a Special Issue in Agronomy on “Post-harvest pest and disease management”, which will focus on:

• Pests and diseases that infest agricultural commodities during storage;
• Use of conventional and modern techniques to control pests and diseases during storage;
• Modeling of conditions and related parameters during the post-harvest stages of agricultural commodities;
• Socio-economic aspects related to storage issues.

The overall aim of this Special Issue is to increase awareness of the adoption of judicious techniques during all post-harvest stages of agricultural products, under a “from farm to fork” approach.

Prof. Dr. Christos G. Athanassiou
Dr. Paraskevi Agrafioti
Dr. Efstathios Kaloudis
Guest Editors

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