1. Postharvest handling of carrots Carrots in Israel - 1,500 hectare that produce over 120,000 ton - seeding time: 50% autumn, 20% winter and 30% spring - Main cultivars: Nairobi and Dordogne

2. Seeding

3. Irrigation

4. Young field

5. Determining the harvest time

6. Mechanical harvest – 2 rows, Early morning

7. Mechanical harvest – 4 rows

8. Collecting the carrots into gondola

12. Moving the gondola to the packinghouse shed

13. Packinghouse shed

15. Station 1: pushing the stems to the packing line with cold chlorinated water

20. Station 2: Washing the stems from soil and mud

21. Station 3: Second wash with fresh cold chlorinated water

22. Station 4: Polisher

26. Station 5: Sorter and sizer

29. Station 6: manual sorting

30. Station 7: automatic 10 kg bag packer

32. Station 8: Palletizer

33. 1.25 ton packer (processing)

34. Station 9: cold storage (0°C, 94% RH)

36. Cold storage (0°C, 96% RH) (3-4 months storage for each harvest)

37. Export by containers (March to June)