One of the key challenges for many farmers is how to dry their produce well to avoid running into losses before selling it off. In a drive to preserve surplus produce, the University of Nairobi in ...

Colombo, March 25 (Daily Mirror) - The first ever Solar Tunnel Dryer technology, which was introduced to dry grain seeds including maize, paddy, green gram, cow peas, sesame, finger millet and black ...

DIPOLOG CITY, June 15 (PIA) – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-9, through the Provincial Science and Technology Office – Zamboanga del Norte (PSTO-ZDN) turned-over and inaugurated the ...

NEW DELHI: In a first, the Indian government is drafting a national testing standard for solar tunnel dryers--renewable energy-powered machines used to dry farm produce. The move to standardize these ...

Telia Curtis, 29, who developed the solar tunnel dryer as part of her Masters thesis, wanted to create a unit that would allow families to dry and sell the abundant fruits and nuts found through the ...

A substantial amount of losses on farms occur at the stage of post-harvest handling. This is as a result of lack of an effective and speedy means of drying the produce. Because of this, many farmers ...

Both India and Bangladesh are blessed with rich solar energy and the recent developments in solar drying technology promises to give fillip to food processing. VARANASI: Can advancements in solar ...

Romblon is well on its way to becoming known as "cocodiesel country." It is now at a stage of assessing the best site for a coconut methyl ester (CME) plant in the island province. Also soon to be ...