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Energy requirements and exergy inefficiencies for processing of malt drink were estimated for a Nigerian brewery. The process was divided into twenty-one basic unit operations and grouped into four main group operations: silo house, brew house, filter room and packaging house. The energy...
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Quinoa is considered a strategic crop because it is well adapted to the adverse abiotic conditions of the Bolivian … Altiplano; however, the average yield is low. Previous studies have demonstrated that quinoa yield would increase with deficit … irrigation technology. Nevertheless, to irrigate quinoa is not a normal practice in the farming systems of the Altiplano. This …
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Quinoa is considered a strategic crop because it is well adapted to the adverse abiotic conditions of the Bolivian … Altiplano; however, the average yield is low. Previous studies have demonstrated that quinoa yield would increase with deficit … irrigation technology. Nevertheless, to irrigate quinoa is not a normal practice in the farming systems of the Altiplano. This …
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an agricultural industry. In the case of quinoa grown in Chile, each producing region has its own peculiar development …. By resting on quinoa to present innovations, project owners have been able to gain access to multiple public policies …. Behind these projects developed on quinoa, project owners in each region have developed the ability to organize regional …
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Quinoa farmers in San Agustín, Bolivia face the dilemma of producing for a growing international market while defending … changing market in the 1970s by creating committees in defense of quinoa and farmer cooperatives to represent their interests … major quinoa exporters, but intermediaries continue to play an important role in the local economy. Meanwhile, some farmers …
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The IFAD-NUS project, implemented over the course of a decade in two phases, represents the first UN-supported global effort on neglected and underutilized species (NUS). This initiative, deployed and tested a holistic and innovative value chain framework using multi-stakeholder, participatory,...
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Iran. Salt tolerant and high nutritious crop, quinoa, has been introduced all around the world. However, little documented …, yield and water use of quinoa. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of saline groundwater … and 40dSm−1) on growth and yield of quinoa and groundwater contribution to its water use in cylindrical lysimeters in …
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. On the based of quinoa case in Bolivia, we highlight that northern firms? strategies in fair trade niche could provok …
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As sustainable production of quinoa (<i>Chenopodium quinoa</i> Willd.) increases and its geographic range of … cultivation expands, quinoa breeding will allow use of the crop’s wide genetic diversity for cultivar improvement and for … adaptation to new agroecosystems and climactic regimes. Such breeding work will require a reliable technique for crossing quinoa …
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After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...
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