- El presente folleto forma parte de la serie: "Tecnologia Postcosecha", publicacion de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para America Latina y el Caribe, que trata diversos temas relacionados con las tecnologias y procedimientos utilizados en la cosecha, beneficio y almacenamiento de los granos utilizados [...]

 - The objective of this synthesis is to provide an updated analysis of the evolution of postharvest technologies used for the processing and conservation of grains and tubers by African farmers. These technologies permit to ensure food security to rural families, and avoid losses during harvesting, [...]

 - Why is it that engineers have been very successful technically with innovations in drying and storage but that in most countries of the world these innovations remain largely unadapted small and medium farmers? Could it be because farmers see no advantage in using the technology? [...]

 - The main objective of this manual is to describe how post-harvest handling and marketing can be improved through better packaging. Inter-regional exports of the English speaking independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean amount to more than 60,000 tonnes of produce traded, valued at some EC$ 90 [...]

 - The intention of this Guide is to explain basic concepts of agricultural marketing costs and marketing margins. It identifies the main types of marketing costs, provides brief advice on how to calculate them and discusses the interpretation of marketing margins. An understanding of costs and margins [...]

 - Technology is available to eliminate all types of insect infestation from maize and other food-aid commodities and at all stages of transit from producer to consumer. There are however, situations where complete elimination of insects is not justified either on economic or environmental grounds. Control [...]

 - The principal root and tuber crops of the tropics are cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), yam (Dioscorea spp.), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.), potato (Solanum spp.) and edible aroids (Colocasia spp. and Xanthosoma sagittifolium). They are widely grown and consumed as subsistence staples in many parts [...]

 - catalogue including a list of 84 machines (type, name, price etc.)

 - Pour nombre de pays en voie de developpement les cereales et les legumineuses a grain representent l'element essentiel du regime alimentaire des populations, surtout de celles a plus faibles revenus, generalement rurales. Dans ces pays, l'autosuffisance alimentaire reste encore souvent un objectif a atteindre, et cela [...]

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 - For a number of developing countries, cereals and grain legumes represent the basic element of the population's diet, especially for the lowest-income, generally rural, groups. In these countries, food self-sufficiency still remains an unachieved objective, and this is not always or only because of the [...]

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