Cabbage harvest and storage

Abstract

Cabbage is harvested when heads become firm and mature. Delay in harvest for several days, past the point of technological maturity, may lead to head cracking and occurrence of diseases. Only well-formed and tightly packed heads are harvested. Cabbage is harvested once or two times, at the stage of full technological maturity. Cabbage heads can be picked by hand, or the harvest is semi-mechanized or fully mechanized. Plants with incompletely packed head at the time of the last harvest significantly reduce yield performance. A breeding objective is to obtain plants that manage to pack their heads in shortest possible time, which enables mechanized harvest. Careful harvest is the main prerequisite for a good and long storage of cabbage heads. .

Kupus se ubire kada su glavice čvrste i zrele. Odlaganje berbe samo za nekoliko dana može dovesti do pucanja glavica i povećanja nastanka bolesti. Beru se samo biljke sa dobro formiranom i zavijenom glavicom. Ako se produži vreme berbe, dolazi do tehnološke prezrelosti, usled čega glavice pucaju. Kupus se bere sukcesivno - jednom do dva puta, u punoj tehnološkoj zrelosti. Glavičasti kupus se može brati ručno, polumehanizovano i mehanizovano. Biljke koje do poslednje berbe ne stignu da zaviju glavicu, takođe znatno umanjuju prinos. Cilj selekcije je dobijanje biljaka koje bi u što kraćem roku uspele da zaviju glavicu, što omogućuje mehanizovanu berbu. Kvalitetna berba glavica kupusa je takođe glavni preduslov dobrom i dugom čuvanju samih glavica. .