Fruit and Vegetable Quality

Prussia, S. E. and Hubbert, C. R. 1992. Soft system methodologies for analyzing international produce marketing systems. Acta Ho ...

CHAPTER 15 Integrating Problem-Oriented Research ROLF KUCHENBUCH BERNHARD BRÜCKNER JÖRG RÜHLMANN BARBARA RÖGER INTRODUCTION IN t ...

change into a politically desired direction. In some countries farmer or- ganizations adopted new points of view, formerly not a ...

Increasing concern is focused on the environmentalimpact of horti- cultural production that is characterized by a high input of ...

Strategies that obeyed this threshold value on a long-term scale can con- tribute to avoid nitrogen losses of agro-ecosystems. T ...

289 Estimated Sucrose Total Sugar Juice N-Input Uptake (kg/ha) N-Yield (t/ha) (mg g ^1 ) (mg g ^1 ) (mg g ^1 ) 0 78 20.4 a 23 ...

From a consumer-oriented standpoint the measurement of few phys- ical attributes may be not sufficient to estimate the acceptanc ...

with the avoidance of nitrogen losses to the environment. The yield may, however, be reduced, in our example by 20%. Even if the ...

lines will be valid. However, these stakeholders look at the target sys- tem very differently, e.g., they estimate problems diff ...

integrated as much as possible, but it is also inevitable that scientific disciplines be integrated to solve the problems. This, ...

plied research, development, extension to practical growers was struc- tured into almost independent steps, separated by time an ...

Representatives of Agricultural Research, Agricultural Advisory Services and Higher Education in Agriculture, AGR/REE(95)4. OECD ...

CHAPTER 16 A More Integrated View ROBERT L. SHEWFELT LEOPOLD M. M. TIJSKENS INTRODUCTION THIS book is a product of an internatio ...

297 Chapter Definition Source 1 fitness for use Juran, 1974 meeting the expectations of the consumer 3 fitness for purpose Simmo ...

Viaene et al., 1999) narrow consideration of quality to the absence of defects and do not permit consideration of degree of exce ...

299 Term Definition Chapter(s)/ Source Acceptability implies that some criterion is applied to differentiate 7 those products th ...

any aspect involving a range in quality in the general state of a product (Tijskens, 1999). Thus, acceptance describes the state ...

301 Approach Description Chapter(s) Consumer demand consumer choices seek to maximize utility under constraints of 3 a limited b ...

Common Ground A view of quality has emerged from the pages of this book. Quality is not a simple concept. Rather, it can be view ...

work that encompasses sociological, psychological, and economic con- siderations (Steenkamp, 1989; Sloof et al., 1996). Recommen ...