Mango Removal Advantages And Disadvantages

Agriculture industries must also address agriculture’s relationships with both energy and water as food production is highly dependent on both. Food and energy, for example, have an intriguing codependent relationship. It takes energy to produce food—from the fuel in the tractors to the natural sunlight that helps the plants to grow, and food can also produce energy, like the corn in ethanol. New technologies like hydroponics may help to mitigate energy costs and water use while growing greater bounties in smaller spaces.

Agricultural practices throughout the ages have evolved dramatically. Having started off as simple pastoral management and shifting cultivation, these methods have been altered substantially in the name of “progress”, primarily in the US and other industrialized nations. Through this progression the energy inputs and outputs has been drastically altered. The industrialized food system as we know it is much more complex today than the simple agricultural practices used thousands of years ago. Today, the industrialized agricultural system is dependent on extraordinary amounts of fossil fuel inputs in order to maintain its complexity. Energy is needed for growing, processing, packaging, distributing, preparing and disposing of food. With the

Ethanol is a green renewable energy that produces from lignocellulosic materials. In the process, rice straw and corn straw required the physical pretreatment, chemical pretreatment at 100oC for 2 hours, and consequently with cellulase hydrolysis at pH 4.8, 42oC. Therefore, the concentration of 2 - 4 %(v/v) of HCl and H2SO4 were applied. Moreover, the 4 %(v/v) of HCl solution released the highest amounts of total sugar, glucose, and xylose. The corn straw produced the total sugar at 61.43 g/L while rice straw generated 27.36 g/L. The HCl pretreatment released a higher amount of xylose than glucose, In the corn straws, the HCl pretreatment produced the 14.59 g/L of xylose and 7.46 g/L of glucose whereas, in the rice straw pretreatment, the process

The commodity I have chosen to research is strawberries. Strawberries are a very important commodity. There are very few places on Earth strawberries do not grow. United States is the largest producer of strawberries in the world. The next highest producing countries are Spain, Turkey, Egypt and Mexico. There are two main methods for growing strawberries; the first method is hill cultivation. Hill cultivation is used in places where winter is not as cold. The plants grown this way are planted in raised hills of soil that are covered with plastic and are watered using some form of drip irrigation. The plants are usually replaced every one or two years. The second method is matted row cultivation; this takes place where winters are really cold. The plants are set into flat ground, covered with straw, and watered by sprayers. The plants in this method are only replaced every three to five years. Labor has been an issue when it comes to the production of strawberries. Many workers have complained about the poor working conditions they face. This paper will provide an overview of strawberries as a commodity, giving details

Keep it clean from start to finish is the theme. All of the products selected for drying contain some amount of moisture. Bacteria, mold, and yeast are ever present in the air, soil, and objects around us, and thrive to produce spoilage in foods that remain moist without refrigeration or some sort of processing.

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The market for the dried food product are expected to continue to grow over the coming years due to the increase in

Microwave (MW) drying is a rapid dehydration technique that can be applied to specific foods. Increasing concerns over product quality and production costs have motivated the researchers to investigate and the industry to adopt microwave drying technology. The advantages of microwave drying include the following: shorter drying time, improved product quality, and flexibility in producing a wide variety of dried products.

On the one hand, some people know the weather in Africa is that of a pretty dry climate. This is a bad combination when attempting to grow things that are not meant to be grown in hot dry climates. Many foods and other resources need moisture and water to grow and survive. The effect of climate change has directly affected farmer’s “the changing and unpredictable raining seasons has greatly affected their ability to plan their farming activities” (Kibet par 5). The inconsistency in rain and natural temperature in the

Controlled atmosphere storage has been used to keep horticulture crops fresher for longer since before the second century B.C. Back then, however, controlled atmosphere storage consisted of simply storing crops underground in order to keep them cooler. Although these ancient civilizations did not know the mechanisms behind why these crops lasted longer when they were kept colder, they knew that it positively affected the lifespan of the crop and they used it to keep the crops fresher, longer. Now, more than 2,000 years later, we have created very complicated systems that can keep certain fruits and vegetables fresh for nearly an entire year. However, even with these incredible advancements in technology, there are still some

In history, there is a brutal civil war, but not many people know or talk about it. The war in Sierra Leone lasted for years, and many families were affected. The rebel army destroyed villages and killed countless individuals. People lost their homes, families, body parts, and most importantly, their reality. Young boys were taken on both sides to fight in the war. The books The Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone tell two different points of view during the war. The first being from a young girl, named Mariatu Kamara, who was physically mutilated, and the other from a boy soldier, named Ishmael Beah. Even though Mariatu Kamara and Ishmael Beah were both victims of the war in Sierra Leone, each had a different recovery process.

In terms of rarity, in the winery industry, grapes and energy play decisive roles. With an investment in growing grapes applied both organic and biodynamic techniques, Frog’s Leaf always has its own grapes and ensure the high quality of such a material. It also has energy self – sufficiency by the use of geothermal and solar power system and save waters by declining the drip irrigation systems in growing grapes. Thus, Frog’s Leaf does not face rarity

During drying the moisture content is reduced from 45-50% to around 5%. The drying work is done over few stages, where the temperature through which the pulp wire passes is gradually increased.

In China’s Chongqing, an air-raid shelter was used as an experimental facility – named Chaoyang Underground Granary – to examine the efficiency of underground food storage. China’s Chongqing has a subtropical climate – long summer with an average day temperature of 35°C, thus this experiment was focused on the usefulness of underground space in warm climate region. In order to achieve a more effective experiment, husked rice was stored in an underground granary and a nearby surface level granary, both with a variation in temperature and air-tightness. The result was surface granary tend to have more microbes and insects which caused the quality of rice to deteriorate, and more expenses were to spend on pesticides. In contrast, underground granary doesn’t need any pesticides once its space was vacuumed by an air pump, as a vacuum space will restrict the growth of microbes and insects. Therefore, no pesticides were needed for pest control, which result in less pollution for the environment.

Drying is an important process in many fields such as chemical, agricultural, ceramics and pharmaceutical industries. It may be done to have free-flowing solids that are easy to handle, to facilitate the preservation and storage of different materials, to reduce the transportation costs or to achieve desired quality of products. [2]