42% of food is lost between the time of harvest and sale at markets. This represents a huge opportunity to employ better storage practices to prolong the life of food – leaving more to be sold and eaten. Similarly, value-added processing techniques like drying and juicing prolong the life of food and can improve profits. The technologies and techniques used for this might be brand new – or well known among experts, but not to farmers. How can we empower farmers to get the most value from the crops they harvest?
Storage and Processing
How might storage and processing improve incomes for small-scale farmers?
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Pricking treatment technique to enhance drying of whole ginger rhizomes by 50%
Pricking involves piercing fresh ginger rhizomes with an object to improve moisture loss on drying, with 50% reduction in drying duration.
Dried vegetables for improved livelihoods in Rwanda
We will create and empower cooperatives in charge of drying, storing and selling agricultural surplus of refugee and Rwandan farmers.
Biogas-Powered Milk Chiller for Small-Scale Dairy Farmers in Eastern Africa
Increase income of small-scale dairy farmers in Eastern Africa by eliminating milk spoilage using a biogas-powered milk chiller.
Simple food preservation
Keeping food edible so as not to waste it
Underground storage & composting
Use underground storage/cellars as has been used in the USA-if weather or current technology can provide correct temp humidity
Community Farm Centralized storage facilities
My contribution is focused on having a centralized farmers storage facilities for each community to promote participation by all and access
clay soil storage facility
The term BUNGA/RUMBU is a local and at the same time a traditional name given to a storage facility that is used by Farmer to store Harvest.
Improved maize threshing machine "Kungula"
Kungula reduces post harvest maize wastage, faster and cheaper than any machine on the market today.
Manual ginger sorter/grading machine
Manual fresh ginger rhizomes sorter/grader was produced inorder to grade ginger according to three common sizes big, medium and small.
Jobs for Youth to Reverse Cereal Grain Postharvest Loss
Just like hand washing prevents ebola, accurate grain moisture testing will reverse PHL and efficiently "increase safe food availability.
Revalorization of Waste waters for a Productive Organic farming on farms in world
Domestic wastewater is an inexhaustible resource. They contain OR-Ganie, an enrichment of agricultural land.
Production of extruded ready-to-eat diabetic snacks from blends of selected grains and legumes
Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals were produced from selected locally available low glycemic food materials using a local technology.
Horti-Fresh:remote post harvest management
Solar driers and cold-storage infrastructure that remotely monitors stored horticultural produce in real time to improve their shelf lives
Innov8's device boosts farmers income from coffee sales by delivering better coffee processing technology to improve their coffee quality.
Innov8's device allows Ethiopian farmers to wet process coffee beans to the highest quality and thereby extract the maximum value from sales
Boasting Profits of cassava farmers with a Solar Drier-Mubende Uganda
I will contribute land where the cassava drying with a solar drier and processing will be located
Reduce post-harvest loss with Energy Free Cool Storage
Simple 'root cellar' cool storage technology that optimizes agriculture storage life and quality without the use of electricity.
Storage to Reverse Grain Postharvest Loss
Mobile utility is a bridge between farms and transport to demand centers that will debunk myths like “metal storage is expensive."
Development of manual whole ginger pricking machine to enhance drying of whole ginger rhizomes by 50%
Manual pricking machine was developed to decease the drudgery associated with hand pricking with sharp objects.
Eco-Storage Technologies
Plastic Insulated Solar Powered Cold room (Eco Cold Room) and Zero Energy Cooling Chamber (ZECC) used for storage of fruits and veggies
Collective potato cold storage facility for small-scale farmers in Bangladesh
A potato cold storage facility that reduces post-harvest losses and increases farmer income through shared storage ownership.
(AGB) Agrowbase - linking agriculture
A for-profit web application for generating a worldwide knowledgebase linking communities of agriculture, sponsored by regional advertising.