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Food Drying/ Production Plant
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Kasozi,   Maria; Mwegombi,   William.
Tropical Horticulture Enterprises (T.H.E) is a Ugandan initiative that works to add value to fruits, bananas and vegetables. The main out put of this initiative are processed dried fruits, fresh fruits, banana flour and fresh vegetables. T.H.E taps the 22% of banana and fruit loss at farm gate due to failure to access markets timely, besides poor handling knowledge and poor storage facilities in rural agricultural producing areas in the country. The initiative boasts of linkage with farmers and it has a bottom up network through which farmers have benefited in various trainings. The main objective of this initiative is to improve farmer’s incomes through providing an alternative avenue and market access to foods produced and ferried to markets without any...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farmer; Horticulture; Markets; Uganda; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Marketing.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52162