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Local Farmers and Processor Provides Food Aid, Replacing Imports

This is so simple but so powerful its sad its taken so long to happen and is the exception rather than the practice.

 

from: World Food Programme (click image for full story online)

 

For years we have known and seen in reports and comments lately that the food aid is as much a [...]

Vegetables appear to have real advantages over fruit for the juice industry – but will consumers change?

FoodBev.com RSS Feed 26 July 2010 16:39 Can vegetable juices save the juice industry?

The juice industry is losing market share to waters due to higher calorific values, acidity and price. How can vegetable juices turn this negative trend? Harry Zwart finds out.

Vegetable juice concentrates can make a valuable contribution when [...]

Freshpict, a Zambian Fruit and Vegetable Canner – African Food Processor.

This Zambian company produces a wide range of canned fruit and vegetables.

Suppliers Website

(Click the image to visit the website)

 

These include a wide range of products using beans, tomatoes, onion, sweet corn, sundried tomatoes, cherry peppers, pineapple, guava, and gooseberries.

 

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Food Drying – An Overview With Good Links

This is a short 10 page note from The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service . It summarises the various drying technologies applicable to food drying in a concise manner, supporting this with some cost information.

 

from: ATTRA (click image for full story online)

 

It then focusses on the potential of drying as a [...]

Functional Foods – Falling off the Big Trends Lists

I remember some years ago when functional foods was one of the focuses of research at the CSIR Food Processing programme because it was an agreed on major trend in the Food Industry. At the CSIR it was difficult to find the food processors roll, it being more a discovery and testing focus. This lead [...]

How I Spent My 67 Minutes in Honour of Nelson Mandela.

I’m a firm believer in people doing best, if they work for themselves rather than accept handouts. I therefore support SMME job creation as one of the tools to removing poverty in rural areas of South Africa. However, many of those in poverty in South Africa need information to support them in starting their own [...]

Chosing a Packaging System

Here is a nice note and flow diagram that guides the user in things they should consider when choosing a packaging system.

 

from: Food Science Central (click image for full story online)

 

 

Falling Film Evaporator – Equipment Series

Falling Film Evaporators are designed for the production of concentrates from heat sensitive liquids.

 

from: GEA-Wiegand (click image for full story online)

 

The text on the above image from a Wiegand brochure reads:

FALLING FILM EVAPORATORS

Design Vertical shell-and-tube heat exchanger, with laterally or con- centrically arranged centrifugal separator.

Operation The liquid [...]

Snails- Export Opportunity For Africa.

This manual, as its title implies is focussed on the farming of snails covering the topic in great depth.

 

from: Anancy (click image for full story online)

 

There is, however quite a lot online on the marketing and processing of snails in a number of different sources. To have a look click this [...]

GMP & HACCP In Fruit & Vegetable Processing

This is a useful 40 page document from a USAID project. What is interesting about the document is that it addresses two levels, the overall GMP & HACCP process and suggestions on how to introduce them as well as the detailed information on design, finishes, practices, conditions of processing plants that all require attention.

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