Product Description: Small-scale food processing is important worldwide. For individual processors, it is highly accessible as a start-up business, especially for women; farmers and fishermen can readily diversify into processing to increase their incomes; and high added-value enables processors to earn an income from relatively small scales of production...read more

Product Description: “This book is a valuable addition to the relatively limited information available on the subject.” – International Agricultural Development on the first editionFood processing is a valuable way of preserving food to increase food security, minimize waste and generate extra income...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Food manufacturers operating on a small to medium scale face direct competition from the large-scale food sector whose economies of scale, better presentation and powerful marketing can endanger the future of smaller businesses. High quality packaging not only helps to keep products in good condition it lies at the very heart of food presentation and customer appeal...read more

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Product Description: Training in food processing can open up opportunities for individuals who lack business experience, by providing training in costing and marketing a new product. This book offers a blueprint for such comprehensive training.It first explains the importance of needs assessment, course preparation, monitoring and follow up, and the value of practical work and opportunities for trainees to discuss their ideas and discoveries...read more

Product Description: This book provides full information on regionally specific traditional foods, with in-depth technical detail on the processing and preservation of these foods and many useful illustrations. Locally produced food, plentiful at certain times but scarce at others, must be processed to prolong its "shelf-life," but processing also brings the benefit of a more varied and interesting diet...read more

Product Description: This is a comprehensive guide to the processing of traditional foods, from Asia, Africa and Latin America, which are made and sold at a small commercial scale of operation. It provides technical information needed by small food businesses to introduce or upgrade their processes and products, and also serves as a suitable guide for new enterprisesin the correct production of foods...read more

Product Description: This book brings together important aspects of both the technological and business skills needed to successfully start and operate a small food proccessing business. The emphasis is on thorough planning before the enterprise is established and then careful control of production to minimize costs and maintain the desired product quality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Food manufacturers operating on a small to medium scale face direct competition from the large-scale food sector whose economies of scale, better presentation and powerful marketing can endanger the future of smaller businesses. High quality packaging not only helps to keep products in good condition it lies at the very heart of food presentation and customer appeal...read more

Product Description: Edited and introduced by Peter Fellows and Ann Hampton Small-scale Food Processing: A guide to appropriate equipment provides information on the major food-processing technologies, divided by food group, including sugar confectionery, milk, meat and cereal-based products...read more