Introducing improved cassava processing technologies in southern Tanzania
Material type: ArticleLanguage: English Description: p. 393-399Subject(s):- Manihot esculenta
- Processing
- Processed products
- Appropriate technology
- Innovation adoption
- Tanzania
- Manihot esculenta
- Procesamiento
- Productos procesados
- Tecnología apropiada
- Adopción de innovaciones
- Tanzania
- Cassava
- Yuca
- Elaboración y preservación de los alimentos
- Articles in proceedings
- Artículos en memorias
- Economia y politicas de desarrollo
- Food processing and preservation
- Development economics and policies
- Serial book chapters
- SB 317 .5 .A3 I5
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Between 1988 and 1993, a number of studies on the efficiency fo cassava processing were carried out in a district of southern Tanzania. These studies were initiated in response to reports of acute intoxication due to the consumption of insufficiently processed cassava during a period of severe food shortage. Preliminary studies indicated that the normal sun-drying practice, requiring more than two weeks, was being short-cut in order to meet an immediate need for food. The practice of sun-drying was shown to be an inefficient method of reducing cyanogen levels, especially during periods of severe food shortage, and a need for improved technology was identified. Consequently, a project was initiated to devise a means of introducing and/or promoting efficienty processing methods to the region. The development of a strategy for disseminating appropriate technologies is discussed in this paper eng