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 As food processors, our raw material costs are normally a large fraction of our total cost of production. There is no arguing the fact that the cost of many raw materials are rising. The reasons for these are numerous including the: changeable weather experienced world wide the increase in the crude oil price and therefore [...] 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 [...] The co-operative was “changing projects into business enterprises, make more profits so people can get more money and change there living”. This was, this morning as I was watching Ulimo, a magazine for emerging farmers in South Africa. The statement was by Sandile Adam the Project Leader of the Uitenhage & Dispatch Development Initiative. This [...] The once common tree butchery of Maputaland have all but vanished for non technical reasons. I plan to investigate it a bit and see if there is a basis for new business. I would appreciate any feedback or ideas from anyone interested. At the time that I was working on palm wine preservation in [...] Some of you maybe remember the old SAFPP site which is shown above. I am now finished working at the CSIR and one of the things I intend doing is establishing a web based information source for the food processing community in Africa. I have many ideas for things that I think could [...] |
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