MARC details
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03090nab|a22003617a|4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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66454 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240131212507.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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20239s2023||||mx |||p|op||||00||0|eng|d |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
0022-474X |
| 024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
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| Standard number or code |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2023.102158 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MX-TxCIM |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
De Groote, H. |
| Miscellaneous information |
Formerly Socioeconomics Program |
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Formerly Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
| Field link and sequence number |
INT2512 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
841 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Technical performance and economic efficiency of small-scale maize dryers in Kenya |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Elsevier Ltd., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2023. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
United Kingdom : |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Peer review |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Maize is the most important cereal in East and Southern Africa, but its production is highly seasonal. Maize storage is therefore essential for food security, and so is drying before storage, typically to 13.5%. New small-scale dryers have been proposed but their performance has not been tested. The technical performance and economic efficiency of small maize dryers were therefore assessed during two on-station experiments conducted after the main harvest of 2021 in Njoro, Kenya (1800 masl, temperature 17-22 C). Six available dryers were tested: EasyDry (capacity 495 kg, cost of KES 85k), the green house (180 kg, KES 33k), the Multipurpose (90 kg, KES 30k), the POD (90 kg, KES 15k), the Dehytray (7 kg, KES 6k) and the Hybrid (5 kg, KES 17k), and compared to open-air drying (180 kg, KES 5k). In their technical performance, all dryers were faster than open-air drying, which took on average 21.1 h to dry one batch of maize (2.4 h/% point), but only one dryer, EasyDry M500, was substantially faster (8.6 h or 1.03 h/%), as it uses maize cobs for fuel, followed by Dehytray (15.6 h); other dryers took much longer (between 17.6 and 19.9 h). As per the economic analysis, open-air drying was the cheapest drying method, at 0.4 KES/kg maize (US$ 4/tonne). The cost of solar drying strongly decreased with the dryers' capacity, with a cost of 1.4-1.8 KES/kg for the cheapest. Small dryers (<10 kg) were prohibitively expensive and not profitable for routine drying of maize. In conclusion, the dryers tested were economically not competitive with open air drying of maize as they are more expensive, unless other factors are considered, in particular the high drying rate of the EasyDry M500, and the better grain quality of closed systems such as Greenhouse and POD dryers. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Text in English |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Drying |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
13621 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Maize |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1173 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Quality |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1231 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Food security |
| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1118 |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Source of heading or term |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1316 |
| Geographic name |
Africa |
| 700 0# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Peter Obuon Akoko |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31717 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stroshine, R. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31718 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gathungu, E. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
31719 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ricker-Gilbert, J. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
672 |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Title |
Journal of Stored Products Research |
| Related parts |
v. 103, art. 102158 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
United Kingdom : Elsevier Ltd., 2023 |
| International Standard Serial Number |
0022-474X |
| Record control number |
u444574 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Article |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |