Try Drying It!: Case Studies in the Dissemination of Tray Drying TechnologyShows how improving on the traditional techniques of drying by sun and air can provide income-generating activities for groups in the developing world. Examples from Peru, Colombia and Bangladesh; with detailed technical appendices. |
Contents
CASE STUDIES | 10 |
PROSPECTS FOR THE 1990s | 31 |
THE ECONOMICS OF SMALLSCALE | 41 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
air flow air temperature Bangladesh batch cabinet batch drier batch drying benefits Benson heater Bogota camomile capacity co-operative's coconut Colombia commercial constraints costs crop dehydration desiccated coconut developing countries Dhaka difficult dissemination dried herbs dried product driers in Peru drying curve drying operation drying plant drying system drying techniques drying technology economics efficient entrepreneur farmers final selling price fuel Guatemala heat heater/blower unit herbal humidity important improved drying INCAP income increase interest Intermediate Technology ITDG ITDG's kilogram labour Lima margin Mario Molina Mennonite Central Committee moisture content monsoon season Morenos open sun-drying over-drying packaging paddy parsley Peruvian possible problem product preservation product refinement profit programme raw material Roberto Moreno rural Santiago semi-continuous small-scale driers small-scale drying solar driers solar drying sophisticated sorrel Sri Lanka studies supply Surjosnato Tarma teabags technical traditional drying tray drier tunnel drier wet product Yerfil