standardmedia.co.ke

How to dry your maize harvest in wet season

During this season of unrelenting rains, the traditional method of maize drying by spreading the grains on a polythene sheet to dry under the sun is not sustainable. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard] As days go ...
JSTOR Daily

Nonhydraulic signalling of soil drying in mycorrhizal maize

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Our objectives were to (1) verify that nonhydraulic signalling of soil drying can reduce leaf growth of maize, (2) determine if a mycorrhizal ...
Purdue University

Purdue-affiliated startup developing solar-powered crop-drying device to prevent post-harvest losses for agro-processors

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue-affiliated startup is developing an affordable, solar-powered crop-drying device. The technology could provide smallholders and small to medium agro-processors in ...
JSTOR Daily

DRYING OF MAIZE AFTER PHYSIOLOGICAL MATURITY ON CHERNOZEM SOIL WITH FOREST RESIDUES

Abstract The grain moisture content, the water content of the cob and internode and the thousand-kernel mass were examined at very low grain moisture content for 22 hybrids in the FAO 200–500 maturity ...
Purdue University

Purdue-affiliated startup developing solar-powered crop drying device to prevent post-harvest losses for smallholders, small-medium agro-processors

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue-affiliated startup is developing an affordable, solar-powered crop drying device. The technology could provide smallholders and small to medium agro-processors in ...