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 What about a South African company for a change?
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The have a range of things to season your cooking as well cocoa and vanilla. All is packed and presented in a minimal designer manner. They offer grinders, rubs, powders and dips and put an [...] Its only coincidence that this comes after I start posting about drying! What caught my eye was the high value add obtained for this product which is after all widely available in tropical africa in a somewhat less attractive format.
from: Food Processing (click image for full story online)
The product is [...] Mopane worms are critical to nutrition and income generation for most households in those rural areas in Africa where the mopane tree grows. However, climate change and over harvesting of the worms as one of the few income generating opportunities in rural areas are threatening the species’ survival. Mopane worm on a branch of [...] I intend to do a series of posts on fruit and vegetable drying given that this is one of the simplest, safest and cheapest processing technologies. However, as I am always promoting that we need to start at the market side. We also need to define the sector we are working in. But first a [...] I have often posted on the waste issue – highlighting the problem, looking at solutions and reporting on achievements. Now, in the UK, we have a real agreement in place and initial results that look promising.
from: WRAP (click image for full story online)
Retailers and manufacturers are committed to working together [...] Packaging is very often a major problem in small and medium scale processing in Africa – poorly packaged products will seldom compete with well designed imports. This document is another one from the West Africa Trade Hub, a really good resource especially for businesses in West Africa. On the other hand much of the information [...] The previous post was based on the commercial press view of the technology – a little more looking gave another more technology and product based view.
from: EnWave (click image for full story online)
EnWave seems to have been focussed on high value freeze drying application in active pharmaceutical dehydration and the [...] Is this really a new technology? too often I’ve read about the next new drying technology but the changes haven’t been significant for many years. At the end of the day that cost is a major issue where many new technologies have failed.
from: Food Production Daily (click image for full story online) [...] This is a nice article on honey in rural Kenya.
from: AFRIGADGET (click image for full story online)
Of particular interest is the fact that the traditional hive, with some of its disadvantages is widely used because of the high cost (US$ 100) of commercial hives. Also that honey separation is done [...] |
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