Storage & Preservation

Solar cooling facility saves farmers & traders produce from spoilage

Nairobi-based social enterprise, FreshBox , has developed a solar-powered, walk-in refrigeration facility that can hold over 2,100kg of fruits and vegetables to improve produce shelf life enhancing farmers’ and vendors’ income at a time reports indicate huge wastages due to lack of proper storage. According to a report by Research Solutions Africa on Fresh Vegetables …

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Communal granaries help farmers preserve produce

Farm­ers in the de­luge prone Bunyala area of Bud­alangi who have tra­di­tion­ally lost their har­vest due to in­cess­ant floods are now as­sured of safety of their har­vests thanks to com­munity granar­ies that are built on dry areas. The granar­ies, built through pool­ing to­gether of re­sources by local farm­ers, en­sure that any­time farm­ers har­vest they place …

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