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8 - Time to take stock

from Part 1 - A dream of future wealth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Robert Bittlestone
Affiliation:
Metapraxis Ltd
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Australian CSIRO has designed Moisture Control Technology (MCT) to control free moisture found in stored or transported fresh food, enabling food to stay fresher for longer … CSIRO has tested the MCT liner with both fruit and vegetables and in the laboratory storage trials a shelf life of 28 days was achieved at 2°C for cauliflowers and 6 days at 25°C. In the case of oranges the shelf life was 56 days at 3°C and 21 days at 21°C.

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Let us return to our fruit-sellers. One day the brother – his name is Geronimo – strikes lucky: he finds a new orange grove adorned with ripe fruit that falls to the soft ground when he shakes the trees. He rapidly fills several baskets with oranges and brings them to his sister Ursulina by the roadside. But today is not so fortunate for Ursulina: there have been few passing motorists and sales are poor. She looks at all the oranges and declares that they have no chance of selling them before sunset. ‘Never mind,’ says Geronimo, ‘We'll hide the baskets in the bushes and sell them tomorrow. That means that I probably won't have to pick any at all in the morning, so instead I'll make that new stall that you wanted to replace the old one that's falling to bits.’

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Financial Management for Business
Cracking the Hidden Code
, pp. 48 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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