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Resultant damage can include splitting of fruits, internal bruising, superficial grazing, and crushing of soft produce. Poor handling can thus result in development of entry points for moulds and bacteria, increased water loss, and an increased respiration rate. [9] [10] Produce can be damaged when exposed to extremes of temperature.
The PLP is a set of loss figures, one for each link in the postharvest chain. Each PLP figure is the average of all those data available in the scientific literature for a particular crop (which include both quantitative weight loss figures and ‘informed guestimates’), under a particular climate, and at a particular scale of agriculture.
Lost volume seller is a legal term in the law of contracts. Such a seller is a special case in contract law.Ordinarily, a seller whose buyer breaches a contract and refuses to purchase the goods can recover from the breaching buyer only the difference between the contract price and the price for which the seller ultimately sells the goods to another buyer (plus, under some circumstances ...
Diminution in value is a legal term of art used when calculating damages in a legal dispute, and describes a measure of value lost due to a circumstance or set of circumstances that caused the loss. Specifically, it measures the value of something before and after the causative act or omission creating the lost value in order to calculate ...
Her team develops AI tools to reduce crop loss that causes food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. This article is part of " Build IT ," a series about digital-tech trends disrupting industries.
In integrated pest management, the economic threshold is the density of a pest at which a control treatment will provide an economic return. [1]An economic Injuryis the insect's population level or extent of crop damage at which the value of the crop destroyed exceeds the cost of controlling the pest. [2]
According to the lawsuit, Pendarivs is seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, costs and all other available damages “caused by the defendants’ deliberate ...
Feb. 17—HARLINGEN — Valley citrus has been battered and bruised over the last year, and for some growers, the extreme cold may put an end to hopes of big profits this season. "I told somebody ...