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    Best Practices for Traditional Cheese Processing in English (USA)
    Cheese processing First, make sure you install a net in the processing area incase it is near a kraal to keep flies out of the area and always clean processing before processing. Sprinkle water on floor to prevent duct and make sure the process follows linear flow to prevent contamination and do not keep raw […]
    Duration: 09:20:00
    Advantages of APICAL POTATO CUTTING over the normal potato to produce seed potatoes
    The plant generates into multiplied potato cuttings which have to be rooted and used as the mother plant. An apical cutting is made from the mother plant and is transferred to a media where it is planted, and after 3 weeks it is ready to be planted in the field. The farmer can obtain up […]
    Duration: 07:20:00
    »Shea Butter Processing«
    »Shea Butter Processing« Value addition on agricultural products mainly shea nut along the agricultural value chains increase on their prices. Gather fruits at least once a week to prevent molding or germination, boil the nuts for 30 minutes and then dry them under sun. As nuts are cracked when they rattle inside the shell, separate […]
    Duration: 16:03:00
    Rendering Beeswax from honeycomb
    Take your honeycombs and crush them using your hands to release the honey from the cells and sieve the honey using the sieve device, to separate the honey from the honeycomb. This honey is not good for human consumption since it has been in the hive for long. it’s left so that bees can take […]
    Duration: 06:11:00
    How to choose a feedstock for pellet making?
    Choosing feedstock Because pellet producing materials includ forest feeding, perennial grasses, wood crops and crop residues, removing bark from wood before pellet making lowers ash content while for short rotation woody crops, ‘there is need to grow tres that can be planted in tiny space rows. Finally, pellets from crop residues have high ash content.
    Duration: 05:11:00
    How to determine pellet durability?
    Pellets calculation First, tumble  pellets for 10 mnutes and after, remove them from machine and sieve to remove fines and record the final weight which is finally calculated to determine the durability.
    Duration: 04:06:00
    VEGETABLE VALUE ADDITION
    Due to farming becoming increasingly challenging because of unreliable weather patterns, most farmers are now back on value addition mostly by vegetable gridding. Vegetables like kales, kunde, spinach, amalandas, manage, stinging nettle, kahorora, carrot, and bananas are boiled briefly, placed in cold and running water then placed in a rack of the solar dryer to […]
    Duration: 00:17:59
    Biogas Production in Kenya part 1 – Urban Farmer
    Biogas is a gas produced by the biological breakdown of organic matter through fermentation. The gas is made up of methane and carbon dioxide. Biogas can be produced from a variety of materials such as agricultural waste, plant material, manure, sewage, human waste, garden and kitchen waste. The major designs of biogas plants are fixed […]
    Duration: 00:14:28
    Urban Mushroom – Value Addition (Part 2)
    One of the ways of adding value to mushrooms is making the mushroom seed which is referred to as spawn. Spawn is the mushroom planting material. Value can be added to mushrooms by making spawn using grains such as maize, millet and sorghum can be used as a medium. The first stage is making sure […]
    Duration: 00:11:38
    Urban Mushroom – Value Addition (Part 1)
    Mushrooms are a power house of nutrition. Edible mushrooms are fleshy and fruit bodies of several species of macro fungi. The fungi have bearing fruiting structures that can appear either below the ground or above ground whereby they may be picked by hand. Mushroom is not a rain fed crop and requires little growing space. […]
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