Practice Name:

Storage of Tomato

Details
Category	Crop Production
Crop	Tomato
Crop Family	Nightshade
Scientific Name	(Solanum lycopersicum)
Vernacular Name	Tameta, Tamatar
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Coal
Details of Innovation	Raw tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) are stored in coal powder to keep them fresh for six months. Pot is taken in which the raw tomatoes and powder of coal are arranged in layers one after the other (coal powder and then tomatoes ) and finally again closed with coal powder. The pot is kept at safe place and opened after six months. The tamatoes are found to be in fresh condition. A book titled "Storing Potatoes in North India" written in 1995 by "Durgaprasad Singh" mentions about the use of crystles of coal in storage. In the same way, another method of storage of tomatoes is practiced by the people of Bangladesh. The farmers hang the plants of tomatoes with unripened fruits in an inverted manner (upside down). The practice is said to keep the tomatoes fresh, as the tomatoes on these plants take about two months to ripe.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Kakhaning Dizon
District	South Andaman
KVK District	NRM Division, CIARI, Port Blair
Address	South Andaman, Anadaman & Nicobar Island
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
PIN Code	744101

PAS_1	"Use of activated carbon inside modified atmosphere packages to maintain tomato fruit quality during cold storage" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16536601/
PAS_2	"Use of Activated Carbon inside Modified Atmosphere Packages To Maintain Tomato Fruit Quality during Cold Storage" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7241216_Use_of_Activated_Carbon_inside_Modified_Atmosphere_Packages_To_Maintain_Tomato_Fruit_Quality_during_Cold_Storage
Agro Ecological Zone	The Islands Region-XV,Port Blair
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002587
Reference	LOK(1)3 April-1996, pg.no-13
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/260
State	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
PIN Code	744101