About the Authors

Jorge R. Díaz-Valderrama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Anastasia W. Njoroge

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Dennis Macedo-Valdivia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Perú

Nancy Orihuela-Ordóñez

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Perú

Bradley W. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Victor Casa-Coila

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Perú

Nelly Ramírez-Calderón

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Perú

Jackeline Zanabria-Gálvez

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Ingeniería de Procesos, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Arequipa, Perú

Charles Woloshuk

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Dieudonne Baributsa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

dbaribut@purdue.edu

‡ Last author.

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dieudonne Baributsa is co-founders of PICS Global, a private company that is commercializing the PICS bags around the world; hence declare a conflict of interest. This study was conducted to assess postharvest challenges among farmers in Arequipa Peru for the purpose of exploring potential dissemination of handling and storage technologies including PICS bags. This competing interest does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other co-authors do not have any conflicts of interest.