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Rural Building Course Volume 1
Reference
Series: Rural Building Course
Published: 1995
Pages: 260
eBook: 9781780443065
Paperback: 9781853393105
Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building products, tables of figures and a glossary.
- INTRODUCTION ix
- 1 The importance of storage 1
- 2 Principles of storage 2
- Temperature 2
- Moisture 3
- Keeping pests out of the store 3
- Control of pests in stores 5
- Storage characteristics of selected food commodities 6
- 3 Traditional storage methods 9
- Earthenware pots and gourds 9
- Leaves 10
- Bark 10
- Baskets 11
- Sacks 12
- Basket silos 13
- Roof storage 14
- Maize cribs 15
- Underground pits 16
- Clamp storage 16
- Small storehouses 17
- Earth silos 18
- 4 Improved storage techniques 19
- Plastic bags 19
- 45-gallon metal drums 20
- The Pusa bin 20
- Metal silos 21
- Brick and ferro-cement silos 22
- Storage in ventilated huts 23
- Improved pit storage 24
- 5 Socio-economic context 25
- Appraisal 25
- Technology choice 26
- Economic considerations 27
- Social and cultural considerations 28
- Monitoring and evaluation 29
- viii STORAGE
- 6 Case studies 30
- Improvements to traditional grain stores in Zambia 30
- Flexible solar heat disinfestation devices for domestic and rural storage
- of cereals in the tropics 31
- REFERENCES 32
- CONTACTS 34
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