Determinación del deterioro poscosecha de la calidad de la caña de azúcar Sacharum officinarum L. de una empresa procesadora de la ciudad de Catamayo.

Abstract

The aim of is study was to determine the post-harvest deterioration in sugarcane from a company in Catamayo city from December 2016 to January 2017. We made a sampling of five quarries of burned cane and one in green, the physicochemical characteristics of its juice were analized. The effect of waiting time in the field and storage yard was determined, first, we considered the time that the company took from cane cutting to transporting them, second, we sampled every 6 hours until 24 the burned cane with field times greater than 11 hours, showed significant losses in the quality in the juice and the quarry with a field wait of 3 hours was little affected during two stages. In storage yard, five quarry presented significant changes in the juice after 6 hours. The burned cane in green didn´t have greater changes during two stages, we verified that there are losses in the cane qualite due to the management used by local company.