SMART SOLUTION TO PLUM CONUNDRUM

Storing and shipping plums is a constant play between ensuring that cartons of fruit do not arrive at their destination in a hard, unripe state, or too ripe. Then there is the worry of plums developing unsightly internal browning, or a condition called gel breakdown. A solution is needed to ensure that the local plum industry does not lose out on lucrative markets because of the interplay between regimes and regulations.