Tropical and subtropical fruits (2+1)

Harvesting and yield

• For quality and flavour, pick the fruits when they are soft and wilt at neck exhibited by hanging down. Milky latex does not oozes out from the mature fruit stalk when cut fruits are picked at every 2-4 days intervals. The average yield is about 150 – 300 fruits / tree or about 8-12 tonnes / ha.
• The selected fruits can be stored for four weeks at 0oC and 90 -95 % Relative Humiddity with Co2: O2 ratio of 3.3:5.5. However, frozen figs can be hold for several months in cold storage.
Drying

• Sulphur fumigation followed by drying is commonly done in fig. first fruits are soaked in boiling salt water for a half minute and are dried for a few hours under sun and for eight days under shade.