Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya
We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages...
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| author | Pretari, Alexia Hoffmann, Vivian Tian, Lulu |
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| description | We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages and were widely adopted. Others (a mobile drying service and hermetic storage bags) were provided free to a subset of randomly selected farmers in treatment villages while others had to pay. Overall, the intervention reduced aflatoxin contamination by over 50%. Most of this reduction appears to be due training and the use of drying sheets, the lowest-cost of all the technologies offered. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1455812025-02-24T06:47:37Z Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya Pretari, Alexia Hoffmann, Vivian Tian, Lulu mycotoxins farmers randomized controlled trials maize capacity development postharvest technology harvesters aflatoxins harvesting date moisture content We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages and were widely adopted. Others (a mobile drying service and hermetic storage bags) were provided free to a subset of randomly selected farmers in treatment villages while others had to pay. Overall, the intervention reduced aflatoxin contamination by over 50%. Most of this reduction appears to be due training and the use of drying sheets, the lowest-cost of all the technologies offered. 2019-11-11 2024-06-21T09:04:42Z 2024-06-21T09:04:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145581 en https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101895 Open Access Elsevier Pretari, Alexia; Hoffmann, Vivian; and Tian, Lulu. 2019. Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya. Journal of Stored Products Research 82(June 2019): 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2019.03.001 |
| spellingShingle | mycotoxins farmers randomized controlled trials maize capacity development postharvest technology harvesters aflatoxins harvesting date moisture content Pretari, Alexia Hoffmann, Vivian Tian, Lulu Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title | Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title_full | Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title_short | Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya |
| title_sort | post harvest practices for aflatoxin control evidence from kenya |
| topic | mycotoxins farmers randomized controlled trials maize capacity development postharvest technology harvesters aflatoxins harvesting date moisture content |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145581 |
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