Effect of ripening materials on mango

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the effects of the different ripening materials namely fresh banana leaves, dried banana leaves, rice straw, sawdust, rice hull, fresh shirish leaves and calcium carbide on ripening and quality mango cv. Ashwina. Calcium carbide induced earlier ripening requiring 3.0 days which was colosely followed by rice straw requiring 4.47 days. Fresh banana leaves reduced weight loss but activated the incidence of diseases. The fruits ripened in calcium carbide had the highest content of total soluble solids (19.%) but the rice straw performed better in respect of most of the qualitative parameter studied.