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The Manual on Home-based Fruit and Vegetable Processing – Free Online Information

This is probably the best technical information I have seen aimed at the training of small scale vegetable and fruit processors. The first book covers the principles of post-harvest handling, storage and processing of fruits and vegetables while the second provides recipes and guidance to put these principles into practice.

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Fruit Processing Toolkit – Free Online Manual

This Toolkit is online on the FAO’s INPhO website (International Network of Post Harvest Operations).

It is a comprehensive collection of information that could be used by a range of people from the new entrepreneur looking to understand fruit products and processors to a processors considering expansion into new products.

from: INPhO (click image [...]

Making Jams, Jellies & Fruit Preserves – Free Online Technical Manual

This book by Barbara H. Ingham is available online via http://bit.ly/FBRDH2.

This 65 page book gives comprehensive information on the basis of jam, jelly and preserve making as well as a large number of recipes. Being an output of the University of Wisconsin, the measurements are unfortunately in imperial units. However, if you are online, [...]

Processing Tomatoes for the Small Enterprise – Free Online Information

This 6 page summary is a short overview of processing tomatoes at the small scale farmer level. The production of powder, pulp, jam and ketchup using household, self built and small scale equipment is described.

 

from: Anancy (click image for full story online)

 

It has a contact details for a few appropriate [...]

Guide to Indigenous Fruit Processing – Free Technical Manual

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!

 

from: CPWild (click image for full story online)

 

Interestingly [...]

Ouendmor Ltd Moriba – 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 [...]

Homefoods Processing & Cannery Ltd – African Food Processor

The first and a 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.

Homefoods produces palm oil, Gari and jams & jellies.

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Small Scale Preservation of Acidic Foods

Preservation of foods is central to any food processing operation and specially important to small scale processors as it simplifies logistics. Food Technologists know that preserving acidic foods is safer and easier than low acidity foods and more appropriate to small scale processing.

from Food Science Australia

Food Science a joint venture between [...]

Projects to Enterprises-2

I have spoken a few times about some of the projects that are run in food processing by development organisations. The objective is often to produce entrepreneurs from the unemployed poor.

In my experience this seldom works as it takes more than a process, some equipment and a few training programmes, to produce people who [...]