Africa Grains Online

Module:

Grain Science - understanding grain varieties and their components
Food Safety - safe and efficient technologies
Quality Control - basic analysis for grain and flour
Grain Handling and Storage - the drying, handling, and storage of grains. From processes to solutions. How drying and pre-cleaning helps with mycotoxins.
Milling Technology - Process basics from grain (e.g. wheat and maize) intake, cleaning, and milling
Food Fortification and Flour Improvers - the challenges in flour milling, fortification solutions, monitoring & analytics, impact of fortification and flour correctors & improvers
Roll Fluting Technology - Process of roll fluting and frosting for milling.
Feed Milling - gives an insight into the nutrition of productive livestock and covers the technology in grinding, mixing, and pelleting.

Module:

Contract Farming (CF) - a powerful tool for linking farmers to buyers.
Step 1: Decision to develop a contract farming scheme - identify CF opportunities and risks, costs, and benefits.
Step 2: Development of a CF capacity development plan - identifying non-financial and financial service needs.
Step 3: Development of a CF business plan - outlining solutions for the scheme's setup and operation.
Step 4: Negotiations and farmers’ acceptance of CF contract - initiating working relationships and how to build trust.
Step 5: Startup CF field operations - developing an efficient system for supplier network management
Step 6: Monitoring, feedback & learning - including latest techniques
Steps 7 & 8: Continuous improvement for sustainability and Generic growth through up-scaling - strengthening the CF for reaching break-even and innovating the CF business model to include more farmers