Seminar on “Post Harvest Packaging Technology”

The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka with the support of the The Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging along with its subsidiary company, the Packaging Development Centre and with the assistance of the Ministry of Industrial Development, and the International Labour Organization (Enter-Growth) have invited two experts - Dr. Pattra Maneesing of the Thai Packaging Centre and Prof. Jingtair Siriphanich of Kasetsart University, Thailand to visit Sri Lanka on March 18. They will be taken around on field visits to give them an opportunity to observe present post harvest packaging practices of fruits, vegetables and cut flowers/foliage adopted in Sri Lanka. It is being planned to conduct a full day seminar on Friday March 20 at the Dambadeniya Export Production Village, Narammala.

It is known that Thailand, a fast developing country in the Asian region, an active member of the Asian Packaging Federation, has been able to reduce their post harvest losses to a great extent by improving the post harvest handling and post harvest packaging practices in their country.