When you pick your tomatoes, if you want to keep them longer, you have to find a way of reducing the temperature. As availability of electricity at village level can be a problem, ways have to be found to lower the temperature of this fragile crop. Some farmers at Dambatta in Kano State, Nigeria have used local mud bricks to make a very effective cooling chamber.
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Storing fresh and dried tomatoes (Summary)
Compost from rice straw (Summary)
Silage from maize (Summary)
Making rennet (Summary)
Making fresh cheese (Summary)
Tomato concentrate and juice (Summary)
Hydroponic fodder (Summary)
Intercropping maize with pigeon peas (Summary)
Grafting mango seedlings (Summary)
Making a raised platform for sheep and goats (Summary)
Sorting and storing pumpkins (Summary)
Making a condiment from soya beans (Summary)
Staking and pruning passion fruit (Summary)
Growing lupin without disease (Summary)
Managing aflatoxins in groundnuts during drying and storage (Summary)
Selective harvest of mangoes (Summary)
Making better shea butter (Summary)
Preparing low-cost concentrate feed (Summary)
Stocking fingerlings in a nursery pond (Summary)
Growing azolla for feed (Summary)
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