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This book focuses on the storage of the staple commodities such as grains and root crops, but it also covers other major food groups such as oils, fish, fruit and vegetables. Useful reading for volunteers training for food processing projects, their trainers, and non-specialists already involved in projects and seeking specific information on technology choice.
Published: 1995
Pages: 48
eBook: 9781780444321
Paperback: 9781853393099
This book focuses on the storage of the staple commodities such as grains and root crops, but it also covers other major food groups such as oils, fish, fruit and vegetables. Useful reading for volunteers training for food processing projects, their trainers, and non-specialists already involved in projects and seeking specific information on technology choice.
| 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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