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Changing a post-harvest system : impact of diffused light potato stores in Sri Lanka
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Changing a post-harvest system : impact of diffused light potato stores in Sri Lanka
Conditions in Sri Lanka"s main potato producing regions in 1980 - rising costs of foreign seed, unavailability of seed at optimal planting times, heavy losses in handling and storage, government concern with foreign exchange, and extension involvement - were conducive to the introduction of low-cost diffused light storage (DLS), a new post-harvest technology using natural indirect light instead of low temperature to control excessive sprout growth and associated storage losses.
Rhoades, Robert E. · 1984
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Abstract
This initial study of the adoption and impact of the technology presents the policy and farming environment into which DLS was introduced into Sri Lanka and discusses how DLS is being adopted by Sri Lankan farmers. The study concludes by illustrating the technology"s important consequences, not only in cutting storage losses, but in raising yields, changing cropping patterns, reducing dependency on foreign seed imports, saving foreign exchange, and bringing prestige to the national potato research and extension programs. Five tables, five diagrams, one map, and a list of 14 references cited (1963-83) are included. (Author abstract, modified)
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