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carefully place the fruit in a
attached to the butternut to
single layer on shelves, leaving
avoid bacterial infection. They a small space between each
can be cured either by
fruit. Maintain a temperature
leaving them in small piles in of 10°C and a relative
the field for ten days to two
humidity of 70% to 75%.
weeks when the weather is
Temperatures above 15°C
warm and dry, or by keeping promote high respiration and
them inside at room tempera- shrinkage. Do not allow the
ture for a month. Unlike most temperature to fall below 5°C
other vegetables, squashes
and \