Dry Commodities

Ebook "Value addition of horticultural crops: Recent trends and future directions" combines several ideas and philosophies and provides a detailed discussion on the value addition of fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, floricultural crops and in forestry. Separate chapters address the packaging, preservation, drying, dehydration, total quality management and supply chain management of horticultural crops. The book explains value addition as a process of increasing the economic value and consumer appeal of a commodity with special reference to horticultural crops.

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Soybean is produced today mainly for its protein and oil components. Commodity soybean seeds consist of approximately 40% protein and 20% oil on a dry weight basis (Liu, 1997). One metric ton of soybean yields an average of 183 kg of oil and 800 kg of protein meal. Soybean meal contains 44% or 48% protein the average Depth of 4.01cm seed to seed spacing was 25 cm respectively.

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Consumers’ perception is defined as the study of how an individual customer, groups of customer select, buy, use, and dispose ideas, goods, and services that cater their needs and wants. It refers to the actions of the consumers in the marketplace and the underlying motives for those actions. Rathod et al., (2008), focused on finding the difference of criteria for selection of retail store among customers. Primary data was collected from seven big cities of Gujarat by quota sampling.

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Food has been a basic part of our existence and food nourishes the body. The study was based on the secondary data collected from NSSO household consumer expenditure survey (unit level data) 68th round was used to extract the necessary data required for the study.

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Post-harvest processing and value addition is the most important aspect related to all the food products. Processing of agricultural commodities means converting the raw food material in to consumer acceptable form with increased shelf life and maintained nutritional quality. It can be achieved through various conventional food processing methods like drying, dehydration, evaporation, extrusion, freezing etc. The main lacunae with these conventional methods are loss of colour, flavour, vitamins and other nutrients due to higher temperature and longer processing time.

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Aflatoxins are toxins produced by moulds in food commodities both before and after harvest. After harvest of the produce, if the chilli fruits are not properly dried, it leads to mouldy growth and subsequent aflatoxin production.

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Banana inflorescence is consumed as a vegetable in many Asian countries, is also an excellent source of various minerals such as magnesium, copper and iron. However using it as a vegetable sometimes becomes very demanding as it is very difficult to remove the bracts and extract out the flowers for cooking. So it becomes very important to use some technology to develop ready to cook banana inflorescence which can be preserved for a long period.

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Most agricultural commodities are processed in some way. Some fruits and vegetables are canned, dried or frozen. Meat animals are slaughtered, cut up, and chilled. Wheat is ground, and the flour is baked into bread. Soybeans are crushed, and the oil is made into margarine and shortening; the meal is used for livestock feed or refined for high-protein flour. Cotton is spun into thread and yarn; the yarn goes into cloth, and the cloth into shirts and dresses and sheets. Byproducts of many agricultural products yield glycerin, fatty acids, enzymes, hormones, and many...

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In a literature review of DRESCHER-KADEN et al. (1992) including 900 papers published since 1977, residue data about the level of organic pollutants in German sewage sludges were collected. 332 organic compounds with known or suspected toxic effects have been detected in sewage sludges, 42 of them regularly, most of them within the range of g/kg to mg/kg dry matter. Except volatile and easily degradable chemicals, the residue level increases from raw to digested sludge.

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Plant parts are probably the most difficult to identify as they consist of pieces of dried roots, barks, leaves, berries etc. at varying stages of processing, and can look fairly similar to one another. It is not worthwhile for enforcers to learn to identify such raw materials unless they are going to deal with such shipments or domestic trade on a regular basis. It is best to use experts when packaging for raw materials is not labeled.

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Bloating fried dried Tra-Basa was one of special commodities at Chau Doc – An Giang, the province which had over 45 big and small bloating fried dried Tra-Basa shops. Their processes were not been ensured in terms of hygiene standard because they soaked fish meat in the river water and dried them on the outdoor drying ground. The aim of this study were: (i) preliminarily investigate the processing of bloating fried dried Tra-Basa at Chau Doc – An Giang; (ii) suggest some technical parameters in processing to improve the quality of this product. ...

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