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Made additions to temperature and humidity control by providing additional useful technologies.
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|'''Poor management of temperature and a lack of cooling systems''', can cause huge post-harvest loss, especially in hot climates. Keeping products at their lowest safe temperature will increase storage life by lowering respiration rate, decreasing sensitivity to ethylene gas and reducing water loss (not too cool).
|'''Temperature and relative humidity control''': A variety of simple cooling methods exist where electricity is unavailable or too expensive, such as night air ventilation, underground or high altitude storage, use of shade, cool water, ice, on-farm cool storage, CoolBot TM cold room, and evaporative cooling devices such as "Zero Energy Cooling Chambers (ZECCs)", clay pot coolers, and “Zeer pots". Both the private and public sector should invest in storage and cold chain facilities.
''See [[Addressing Food Loss and Waste - Examples]] for examples''.
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