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 Here is a 288 page , high quality manual covering the steps required to set up a small food processing business.
click image to visit website The table of the contents of the book says it all The only downside is that it is written for Canada so many of the [...] To begin with I felt that food on France would be expensive and didn’t look too hard. Lately I have started taking a bit more note and am beginning to wonder what is going on. After coming home from a medium sized supermarket in Cluny, a small rural town, I took these items out of [...] I’ve always been a bit of a disbeliever in relying on sell by dates and quality management system for the food safety of cold chain products. The thing that always worries me is that once the product leaves the factory the manufacturer has no control over how the product is handled. If the refrigerated fish [...] Here is another document from the Ethiopian Business Development Network – the manual on Marketing Strategies For Micro and Small Enterprises in Ethiopia was published in Addis Ababa in February 2004. from: EBDSN (click image for full story online) The 65 page manual starts with a review of the problems faced by the sector, [...] The site of the Ethiopian Business Development Services Network will be of great value to Ethiopian businesses, but also contains some information that would be of interest to any entrepreneur considering a food processing business. In particular it has a detailed section on costing with a focus on fixed and variable costs, price setting [...] from: USDA (click image for full story online) note: This clip comes from a detailed data full report. It is worrying that such data does not exist in Africa. While this is not a food processing manual it gives the reader two things: information and costing of products, refrigerated storage, logistics and certification an insight into the post-harvest and pre processing handling of food from: FAO (click image for full story online) The book is part of a series of manuals for agribusiness [...] Over the years I have seen many attempts, and been involved in some myself, where there has been an attempt to introduce vegetable production in resource poor communities. This one – The African Market Garden (AMG) seems to address a number of the problems I saw and refreshingly provides some hard information on costs and [...] There are some interesting podcasts on the BBC Food Programme about very small and this very large dairies. It appears 33 l/day is a good average, so long the cows are milked 3 times a day which links the billion litres a year to 83 000 cows!
photo by Tractorboy60 on Wikimedia [...] 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 [...] |
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