Environmental research

Promote awareness on solar spice drying technologies, expand the pilot-scale demonstration models and new market mechanisms, transfer the manufacturing technology to rural workshops and produce a handbook and to further develop the solar drying technology. The project attempts to promote spice drying based on renewable energy- solar energy with bio mass energy as auxiliary supply. Solar spice drying technology will improve the income of rural spice producers by enabling them to dry spices in the farm during the rainy harvesting seasons; by eliminating losses from soilage that ususally occur during traditional sun drying; and by obtianing value added prices for dried spices of greatly improved quality. Renewable energy based drying technologies will eliminate the need for off farm spice drying and reprocessing of sun dried spices both of which consume fossil fuels. The future potential of fossil fuel savings are greater in the face of increasing demands on our spices by interantional spice market for quality improvements

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