Drying Food for Profit: A Guide for Small Businesses

by Barrie Axtell, Andrew Russell

Overview

This book has been written for existing and prospective entrepreneurs who wish to produce dry foods commercially at small and medium scale. Great effort has been made to use simple language but at the same time to examine all relevant technical aspects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853395208
Publisher:	Practical Action Publishing
Publication date:	09/28/2002
Series:	Producers Guide
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Barrie Axtell worked in the UK food industry for over 10 years, and then joined the British Overseas Development Program. He then spent 4 years in the Eastern Caribbean as an advisor in food processing, followed by 3 years in Guatemala teaching and developing small scale drying systems. In 1981, he joined ITDG to start its agroprocessing program and travelled extensively to developing projects in Asia and Latin America. His particular areas of interest are drying, packaging and fruit processing. After 10 years as Senior Technical Manager with ITDG he became a private consultant providing technical consultancy inputs to agencies such as FAO, ILO, UNIFEM and ITDG.