Harmonizing Drying Time, Layer Thickness, and Drier Zones for Drying Kinetics: Quality and Safety of Solar Tunnel-Dried Wet-Processed Parchment Coffee (Coffea arabica L.)

Table 7

Influence of drying zones and layer thickness on fungal incidence and infection of the parchment coffee.

Drying zones	Layer thickness (cm)	Fungal count			Mean fungal infection %
		Aspergillus	Penicillium	Fusarium
Sun	2	17	3	2	^c
	4	33	4	3	^ab
	6	30	12	5	^a
	Sum	80	19	10
Zone 1	2	7	2	1	^efg
	4	12	5	2	^cd
	6	28	8	5	^ab
	Sum	47	15	8
Zone 2	2	2	1	0	^fg
	4	10	3	0	^cde
	6	32	0	5	^b
	Sum	44	4	5
Zone 3	2	2	0	0	^g
	4	1	1	2	^fg
	6	12	2	0	^def
	Sum	15	3	2
	Total sum	186	41	25
CV%					9.98

Values expressed are mean values of three error. All mean scores, bearing different superscript letters in columns, differ significantly ().