Slight insect damage on the skin is harmless, but don't store any bruised fruit. Apples need ... t keep and if stored, may rot and infect other fruits. Wrap the apples loosely in newspaper ...

If you've ever bought bananas, avocados, apples, or greens only to find them rotting the next day ... The more ripe an ethylene-producing fruit or vegetable is, the more gas it produces.

Protect your berries from birds by covering the fruit with netting as it starts to ripen. Harvest them when they turn a dusty-blue colour. You may need to pick over your bushes several times, as they ...

In the short-term, however, farmers and fruit traders say the clampdown ... In orchard after orchard surrounding Sopore, apples hung rotting on trees. "We are stuck from both sides," said Haji ...

Ever bite into a delicious-looking apple, only to be rewarded with a chunk of mealy pulp ... The question was, which aspects of rotting fruit do these maggots like and dislike? First, Komarov ...