Course Overview

Understand the importance of storage to avoid food losses.

Participants can learn these outcomes after completing this module:

• Food losses throughout the value chain
• Ideal moisture content and temperature of grains for storage
• Measuring the grain quality and proper silo cleaning
• How to avoid food losses due to respiration, insects, germination and discolouration
• Advantages of silo storage to bag storage and protection against fire and dust explosion (ATEX)
• Silo monitoring of temperature and moisture to avoid respiration, infestation, discolouration, and fungal mould.
• Importance of grain chilling
• Comparison of the time requirement of cooling vs. aeration