This Zambian company produces a wide range of canned fruit and vegetables.
These include a wide range of products using beans, tomatoes, onion, sweet corn, sundried tomatoes, cherry peppers, pineapple, guava, and gooseberries.
This manual, as its title implies is focussed on the farming of snails covering the topic in great depth.
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 link and you will be assisted to make a google search which should give you a good start to finding useful information.
Anyone with information to share can email me here. and I will add links here.
This is one more of those amazing sources of information that the INTERNET provides for free. In the past if you were lucky enough to know about it you could probably request a copy. Now you GOOGLE and FTP a PDF for free!
Interestingly the information in this manual is the same proven science and technology!
I know Chris Hansmann well, from having worked together on a Cashew Apple Processing project, through the South African Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (SAAFoST) and for having worked for sister R&D organisations. I am therefore confident of the soundness of the science as well as the applicability of the technology presented.
The manual is comprehensive, starting with some of the principles of preservation, moving into the different processes that are applicable (both from a process and a product viewpoint), covering hygiene and nutritional aspects and ending on recipes to be used with these processes.
This is a book you should put in your Technology Directory/Folder for the time you need some good technical information on fruit processing, whether it be for indigenous or other fruit.
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This website is a simple commercial undertaking offering a range of Nigerian Foods to expatriates in the United States.
The company is clearly an e-commerce company which has built a management team of Nigerians who are able to drive both the food product and the sourcing issues of the company.
As many of these foods are common to other West African countries the market is surely wider than Nigerians in the US. Then there is also an opportunity to apply the business model to other National Foods and set up stores for other groups.
The company is NY based and prices need to be judged by those who know the foods not me. As examples yam roots sell for $2.30 / lb, garri around $1 / lb, dried shrimp $12 / lb and palm oil $25 / gall.
Africa Biofuel and Emission Reduction Company is focussed on bringing a triple-bottom-line biofuel business model to Africa.
Africa Biofuels set out to find a biofuel process that did not compete for a food or use agricultural land. It looked for a product that could actually enhance the environment and benefit the people of the area.
It identified Croton megalocarpus, an indigenous tree, as its focus.
There is detailed discussion of the project under the explanatory and news section of the website that promotes its arguments in detail.
In a quick scan and search I was unable to identify how the byproducts (oil cake and glycerine) are to be used and what income they will generate. This “income” and the cost of manual collection from wild trees are critical to the viability of the process. In fact I not find any costing or economics on the site but am taking that up via email.
Another in the series which simply links to the websites of Food Processing Companies in Africa. It is hoped that the industry can benefit from a knowledge of who’s doing what – either through the establishment of new businesses or through trading.
Dakar based Zena Exotic Fruits produces an attractive range of jams, spreads, syrups and sauces using a range of fruit including hibiscus, cashew apple, tamarind and baobab.
The products are based on West & North African recipes using local natural resources combined with conventional tropical fruit, peanuts & sesame. Their quality relies on
Contacts
Address: Zena Exotic Fruits SARL
Km 1.8, Rte de Rufisque
Dakar, Senegal
Tel/Dakar: +221.33.821.6996
Fax/Dakar: +221.33.822.5663
Email: zena_exoticfruits@yahoo.fr
Cel/US: +001.917.515.5621
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Ouendmor Ltd Moriba – African Food Processor
Coast Coconut Farms – African Food Processor
Ouendmor Ltd Moriba – African Food Processor
African Food Online
Mongozo BV – African Food Processor
Homefoods Processing & Cannery Ltd – African Food Processor
Suneor SA – African Food Processor
Another in the series which simply links to the websites of Food Processing Companies in Africa. It is hoped that the industry can benefit from a knowledge of who’s doing what – either through the establishment of new businesses or through trading.
Moriba is African based in the materials (bisap, tamirand, cashew, African herbs) and recipes it uses in its products, but manufacturing and retail is based in France. I am following up with them to understand what opportunities there are for other products eg Marula and for the retail business in the rest of sub Saharan Africa.
contact details
It seems that the only way to make initial contact with Moriba is through imbedded emails on their website.
Another in the series which simply links to the websites of Food Processing Companies in Africa. It is hoped that the industry can benefit from a knowledge of who’s doing what – either through the establishment of new businesses or through trading.
Coast Coconut producers a “virgin” coconut oil by using small scale processing at the farmer rather than the traditional method of producing copra which is exported to a regional factor for oil extraction.
While this seems not to yet be a sustainable enterprise, it will be interesting to watch its development. The small scale technology is attractive because some 90% of the world’s coconuts are grown by small farmers.
contact details
Kenya
simeonokello@yahoo.com
United States
sales@basabody.com
feedback@basabody.com
Another in the series which simply links to the websites of Food Processing Companies in Africa. It is hoped that the industry can benefit from a knowledge of who’s doing what – either through the establishment of new businesses or through trading.
Mongozo is African based in the materials it uses to produce beer, but seems to be Holland based on the brewing and retail side. I am following up with them to understand where the brewery is and what opportunities there are for other products eg Marula.
contact details
Mongozo BV
Posbus 5129
5800 GC Venray
Nethrlands
31 478 550 968
31 378 550 969 (fax)
info@mongozo.eu
