Postharvest Food Losses in Developing Countries

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2 Methodologies for Food Loss Assessment Adams, J.M. and Barman, G.W. 1977. The evaluation of losses in maize stored on a selection of small farms in Zambia with particular reference to the development of methodology. London: Tropical Products Institute. 2 A8 Adams, J.M. 1976. A guide to the objective and reliable estimation of food losses in small scale farmer storage. Tropical Stored Products Information 32:5- 12. 2 A4 Adams, J.M. 1976. Report on post harvest loss assessment in durable produce, with particular reference to methodology. Paper prepared for the meeting of the Group for Assistance on Storage of Grains in Africa (GASGA), Montpelier, France, 23-25 June, 1976. 2 A5 Adams, J.M. 1976. Weight loss caused by development of Sitophilus zeamais Motsch. in maize. Journal of Stored Products Research 12:269-272. 2 A7 Adams, J.M. 1972. Storage loss assessment techniques: a biologist's view. December, 1972. (Xerox). 2 A6 Adams, R.E.; Wolfe, J.E.; Milner, M.; and Shellenberger, J.A. 1953. Aural detection of grain infested internally with insects. Science 118:163- 164. 2 Describes the use of a low noise level audio amplifier, suitable microphone and a loudspeaker for detection of insect infestation in grains. Agnes, J.B. 1968. How do you measure grain damage? Paper presented at the symposium on the grain damage held under the auspices of the ASAE at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 17-18 April, 1968. 2 One of the reasons for measuring kernel damage is to evaluate harvest machines and machine components with respect to the damage they cause or produce. Methods described for measuring damage include: 1. Counting damaged vs sound kernels (visual). 2. Sieving. 3. Comparing the H2O absorption characteristics of sound versus damaged corn. A...