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As Africa’s largest cassava producer (over 60 million metric tons annually), Nigeria relies on cassava for calories, income, and rural employment. Yet, post-harvest losses exceeding 40% and labor-intensive traditional processing severely limit its potential. ...
As combines roll and the growing season draws to a close, now is the ideal time for farmers to step back and assess whether their crop nutrition strategies worked or didn’t. In a recent NUTRI-CHECK NET webinar, ADAS crop physiologists Dr Sarah Kendall and Dr Tamara Fitters shared how grain analysis and post-harvest reviews can play a pivotal role in refining nutrient strategies for future ...
Cassava serves as a staple crop for over 500 million Africans, yet post-harvest losses exceed 30% due to inadequate processing infrastructure. This article evaluates the technical construction and economic viability of establishing a cassava processing plant in West Africa, addressing food security and income generation. Construction Framework of Cassava Processing Plant in Africa 1.Site ...
JC 9465 has improved safety and increased production in various agricultural applications that use post-harvest wash systems and hydro-coolers to control cross-contamination and spoilage. The capital cost for installation and operating cost are less than at 1% of the cost of a conventional ozone system. In aquaculture ...
01-Feb-2025 – In a significant move for India’s Makhana industry, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the formation of a dedicated Makhana Board in the Union Budget. This initiative aims to boost production, streamline processing, and enhance global marketing efforts—empowering Bihar’s farmers and entrepreneurs to capitalize on the superfood’s growing ...
In our globalized world, we are all interconnected in one way or another. It means that what we do affects other people and the environment somehow. One of the ways we affect the environment is through food production and consumption. There is a lot of waste created in this process, called post-harvest loss. Post-harvest loss is the loss of food that occurs after it is harvested. Food does not ...
– Sep. 21, 2022 – Sentera, the industry leading ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, today launched seven new crop health and performance analytics as part of its FieldInsights product, which helps agronomic leaders make critical in-season and post-harvest decisions with accurate and reliable data sets. For research and seed production ...
Macfrut is a vertical exhibition that represents the entire supply chain, with 11 sectors involved: Seeds, Plant Breeding & Nursery, Crop Technologies, Production, Trading & Retail, Processing Machinery, Packaging Materials, Fresh Cut, Dried Fruit, Logistics and Services. The B2B meetings, specialised conferences, dynamic areas and many other events offer visitors not only business ...
Black to the future (BTF) is a research project to develop an advanced mix of biological charcoal (biochar) and compost with the goal to reduce soil depletion, increase carbon capture, and improve yield quality. The biochar and compost are obtained from agricultural residues in a circular network where farmers are both feedstock producers and product end users. The co-maturation of this compost ...
Warren, had the citrus orchard flood irrigate the root system three times per week with a +750mV solution (25 mg/l of JC 9465). ...
BeonNAT is a project that aims to develop innovative products from underutilised plant biomass as feedstock for the bio-based industry. The fed biomass will be derived from shrubs, trees and other woody species. The scope of the project ranges from the cultivation and harvesting of selected species, to the extraction and purification of oils and vegetable extracts, paper manufacturing, biochar ...
Horticultural management and production (rootstocks, production methods, cultural systems, irrigation and sustainable approaches). Protected agriculture (greenhouse, shade-house, and tunnel). Integrated pest management (weed, insect and disease management). Post-harvest issues (post-harvest physiology and ...
The Brazilian company has developed a farm operating system with a suite of apps that tells equipment operators where and when they need to be. ...
If you are a fan of strawberries then you have probably experienced opening a recently purchased container only to find that several berries have burst into a plume of velvety gray mold. Unfortunately, your berries have fallen prey to gray mold disease, caused by the fungus Botrytis cinerea. Botrytis infects strawberry blossoms and causes onset fruit rot as berries ripen. This causes ...
Stanghellini continues: “Producers need to switch to closed irrigation systems that allow for drain water to be reused. Therefore they will need to cultivate their crops on substrate instead of ground.” One of the first tests in the demonstration greenhouse will be the measuring of water and nutrient use in open and closed irrigation systems. ...
The study, carried out at the La Morinière Experimental Station (Saint Epain, France), assessing the effect of Bi-On® on the maintenance of ‘Golden Delicious’ apple quality when conserved in ULO (0.5ºC, 1.5% O2, 1% CO2, 85-90% HR) over a 6-month period, was presented at the IX Iberian Symposium on Maturation and Post-harvest (Lisbon, ...
Bioconservación participated from 28th to 31st March, 2017 in the “1st All Africa Post Harvest Congress & Exhibition” which took place in Nairobi (Kenya) and was the first congress on this discipline held on the whole of the continent of Africa. Under the slogan ‘Reducing Food Losses and Waste: Sustainable Solutions for Africa’, the congress brought together ...
USSEC recently launched a post-harvest and fish hygiene study in Egypt. The study, which is being carried out by Megapesce, aims to improve the market opportunities for Egyptian aquaculture products. Currently, Egypt ranks eighth globally in terms of aquaculture production. However, the post-harvest, cold chain, and processing infrastructure are minimal to non-existent, putting downward price ...
Agri to become major contributor to economy The TAHA CEO says the main challenges facing the agri sector in Tanzania and the region include “a long list of regulatory bodies, unfriendly taxes and levies, unavailability of modern laboratories, extension services and infrastructures i.e. availability of cold storage facilities (to reduce post-harvest loss), ...
The ethylene removal with Bi-On improves the conservation of Golden Japan plum In the following article, we describe an independent test conducted to evaluate the effect of different conservation techniques, including the ethylene removal with potassium permanganate media, on the quality of Golden Japan plums. The Golden Japan plum variety is appreciated for its golden colour, firm texture, and ...