FineResults Research Services invites you to training on:

Topic: Horticultural Crops Value Addition for Food Security Course

Date: 24th to 28th August 2020

Cost: USD 800 or Ksh 65000

Contacts: +254 759 285 295, training@fineresultsresearch.org.

INTRODUCTION
Although agriculture is the main source of livelihood to the majority of smallholder farmers, post- harvest losses has been among the major contributor to food scarcity due to low value addition and inadequate cold chain facilities particularly for horticultural produce such as fruits and vegetable. The different fruits and vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, ginger, green leafy vegetables among others are important protective foods because of their nutritional value. Value addition of such fruits and vegetables can not only reduce wastage but also increase the quality of products and their shelf life and consequently guarantee nutritional security among the people. This five (5) day course will equip participants with hands own knowledge on different methods of value addition of different horticultural crops.

WHO CAN ATTEND
• Researchers and data handling professionals in the agriculture sector.
• The course aims at improving the capacity of agriculture teams that integrate both genders.
• Project managers dealing with governments or NGOs.
• Curious and Interested persons.

COURSE OBECTIVES
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Understand importance of value addition
• Gain better understanding in different horticultural produce that can be value added
• Learn different methods of value addition of different horticultural produce

TRAINING FOCUS
Module 1
• Introduction of value addition
• Importance of horticultural produce value addition
• Understanding the produce to add value

Module 2
Value addition of different horticultural produce
• Tomatoes
• Carrots
• Spices (ginger)
• Green leafy vegetables
• Sweet potato
• Potato
• Etc

Module 3
Methods of value addition of horticultural produce
• Tomatoes
• Carrots
• Spices (ginger)
• Green leafy vegetables
• Sweet potato
• Potato
• Etc

Module 4
• Challenges in horticultural produce value addition
• Viability of horticultural produce value addition

Module 5
• Field trip- Visiting smallholder farmers who are doing value addition of horticultural produce

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