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Effect of the packing material on the storage of the coffea arabica L. Seed Efecto del material de empaque en el almacenamiento de la semilla Coffea arabica L.

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Santamaría-Burgos, M. (2022). Effect of the packing material on the storage of the coffea arabica L. Seed. Cenicafe Journal, 73(2), e73203. https://doi.org/10.38141/10778/73203

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Keywords
Potencial germinativo

proceso de beneficio

prueba de germinación

Cenicafé

Colombia

Germinative potential

coffee process

germination test

Cenicafé

Colombia

Potencial germinativo

processo de café

teste de germinação

Cenicafé

Colômbia

Sectión
Articles
Mélsar Santamaría-Burgos

Summary

In order to know the performance of storage and preservation packaging material of germinative potential, five packaging materials were evaluated for the Coffea arabica seed, stored for 12 months in a cold room, under controlled temperature and relative humidity conditions at 10.5°C and 65%, on average. The packaging materials evaluated were: polyethylene (PE) 6 gauge; kraft paper, trilaminate (PE, aluminum and paper), fique and bilaminate polyethylene (multilayer PE). Mature coffee from the Naranjal Experiment Station was used, harvested from plots of 4-year-old C. arabica, in good phytosanitary conditions and processed in the Coffee Seed Process Unit at Cenicafé. The dried coffee parchment obtained in the post-harvest processing had values between 10.3% and 11.5% of humidity and germination percentage of 96%, with a standard error of 0.94. The seed was packed and randomly placed inside a cold room at Cenicafé. In the laboratory, the moisture content and the percentage of germination were measured. The packing materials with the highest water vapor barrier are polyethylene, trilaminate and bilaminate polyethylene, which preserve the quality of the seed during all 12 months, with germination percentage above 94%, on average. The packs that offered the lowest barrier were kraft paper and fique, which affected the germination of the seed to a greater extent, with values between 87% and 88%, on average, from six months. The kraft paper bag, which is currently used for packaging, is a material suitable for the storage of coffee seeds, for periods of less than six months.

Mélsar Santamaría-Burgos, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café

Asistente de Investigación, Disciplina de Experimentación, Cenicafé

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