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Rural Building Course Volume 1
Reference
Contains information on tools, maintenance of tools, rural building materials, rural building products, tables of figures and a glossary.
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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