DEVELOPMENT OF COOL STORAGE SYSTEM USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE MATERIALS FOR QUALITY PRESERVATION OF DRIED VEGETABLES
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2021-10-26
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Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
Abstract
Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations projected that Nigeria on the average
loses $9billion annually to postharvest loss and waste of food. This losses and wastages occur
as a result of in-adequacy of affordable and sustainable processing and storage mechanization
technology. Among the food products, fruits and vegetables were found to be the most
vulnerable .A cool storage system was designed and constructed with aim of mitigating dried
vegetables losses and wastage. Surveys on dried vegetables and agricultural cold storages
were conducted in the North Western region of Nigeria