An agro-processing plant can open up new crop and livestock opportunities to the farmer and thus increase the farm income and employment. The paper identifies following major issues to be discussed and researched: 1. ... "Agro-Processing Industries: Potential, Constraints and Task Ahead," IIMA Working Papers WP_00902, Indian …
Formed in 2006, ZDA has been working to attract private sector involvement in the country's agro-processing subsector while the IDC has been leveraging state resources to set up agro-prosseing industries across the country. In 2021, IDC invested over US$15 million in expanding the country's agro-processing capacity.
The potential for agro-processing industrial development in Zambia is largely associated to the relative abundance of agricultural raw materials and low-cost labour. The most suitable industries . therefore are those that make intensive use of these abundant raw materials and unskilled labour.
> The agro-processing industry has the potential to substantially contribute to economic growth, job creation, transformation and infrastructure development, all …
Special Agro-Industrial Process Zone. Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) are part of a strategic initiative in Nigeria aimed at promoting agricultural industrialization. The concept involves creating designated zones where agribusinesses can operate efficiently, benefiting from infrastructure, services, and policy support.
Agro Processing. Tanzania is well known for its agricultural exports such as maize, coffee, cotton, Sisal, Sesame, Sunflower, and tea, agricultural sector is not only the driver of Tanzania's economy but also the means of livelihood for the majority of Tanzanian people. ... Huge potential in investment in Agro-Industries and Agro-processing ...
Agglomeration is an important phenomenon that accompanies with a large concentration of various production factors. Since the agro-processing industry has become a vital bridge connecting the primary and secondary industries, agglomeration and distribution within this industry are arousing wide concern. Based on provincial panel …
An agro-industry is an enterprise that processes bio-mass, i.e. agricultural raw materials, which include ground and tree crops as well as livestock and fisheries, to create edible or usable forms, improve storage and shelf life, create easily transportable forms, enhance nutritive value, and extract chemicals for other uses. As the products of ...
Agro-. processing accounts for more than 50% of total manufacturing value added in the LIC. countries, declining to 36% and 32% for LM ICs and UMICs respectively. If we adopt. the WDR ...
The agro-processing sub-sector of the manufacturing industry has high recognition on the South African government's development agenda. Yet, the …
The agro-processing industry is among the sectors identified by the Industrial Policy Action Plan, the New Growth Path and the National Development Plan for its potential to increase economic growth and create jobs because of its strong backward linkage with the primary
The growth of the agro-processing industry has the potential to stimulate and spur demand for raw material from the agricultural industry and thereby create novel output markets that increase the income of farmers, which in turn enables investment in capital equipment to improve productivity. The growth and development of the agro-processing ...
Agro-processing has significant potential for job creation in Africa. It generates employment opportunities across various stages of the value chain, including production, processing, packaging ...
By transforming raw agricultural products into processed goods, agro-processing enhances their market value, extends their shelf life, and opens up opportunities for export and industrialization. In the case of South Africa, agro-processing has the potential to contribute significantly to job creation, rural development, and …
Agro-processing trade ofers numerous opportunities for southern Africa countries and is a potential area of business to reduce poverty in the region. However currently this …
cities is agro-industrial processing. The development of agro-industrial processing in secondary cities can act as an effective driver of inclusive economic growth in both urban …
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128426 Corpus ID: 254220668; Microbial conversion of agro-processing waste (peanut meal) to rhamnolipid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: solid-state fermentation, water extraction, medium optimization and …
Microbial conversion of agro-processing waste (peanut meal) to rhamnolipid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: solid-state fermentation, water extraction, medium optimization and potential applications Bioresour Technol. 2023 Feb:369:128426. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128426. Epub 2022 Nov 30. ...
Liquor industry (clear beer and wineries) was found to have the highest potential in biogas production of about 35 × 106 cubic meters/year and the least potential was by pig farming of about 0.02 ...
We emphasize the potential of the Ghanaian agro-processing industry in contributing to sustained growth and development. The chapter examines the role of the agro-processing economy as a crucial engine for structural transformation in Ghana. We first discuss the evolutionary process of policies that have been enacted to promote the …
The sector is also an important contributor to Zambia's exports. In 2020, the agro-processing industry accounted for 3.5 % of total manufacturing exports. The development potential of the agro processing industry in Zambia is largely associated with the relative abundance of agricultural raw materials and the low-cost of labour. Agro ...
This study investigates the agro-processing industries potential to develop the local economic in the east of Iran as a developing country based on the sustainable development criteria including economic, social, environmental, and managerial indices. For this purpose, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model based on fuzzy SWARA and …
The potential of agriculture and agro-processing in the region is far from being realised. Export performance by many countries in the region has been poor. A significant issue is South Africa's continued dominance in agro-processing trade.
The agro-processing sub-sector of the manufacturing industry has high recognition on the South African government's development agenda. Yet, the contribution of the sector to the economy with respect to the foreign trade earning appears to be low in comparison to its potential and counterparts in the developed world.
Bridging the Chasms in Agro-Processing. The agriculture sector, comprising of crops, livestock, forests and fish, is an important sector for the country, contributing 7.5% in 2020 to Zambia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP. Further, agriculture employs almost a quarter of Zambia's labour force at about 23.3%, as per the 2019 …
The agro-processing industry and its potential for structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy. Nkechi S. Owoo and Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio* January 2017. …
The involvement of smallholder farmers in agro-processing has the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable livelihoods (Thindisa, Citation 2014; Wilkinson & Rocha, Citation 2008). According to Sharma ( Citation 2016 ), smallholder farming participation in the global value chains is perceived as of prime importance for …
Downloadable! The paper explores the potential of Ghana's agro-processing industry in contributing to the development and structural transformation of the economy. Although the industry is not well advanced, a number of factors are discussed which make it a viable sector to lead the economy towards sustainable development. The paper documents the …
Government has firmly identified agro-processing and its upstream sector, agriculture, as a critical driver of inclusive growth in South African economy, with very significant job creation potential. Agro-processing flies high in the Agriculture and Agroprocessing Master Plan (AAMP) "as a critical extension of the agricultural value chain to ...
agro-exporters and promoters; and research institutes, providers of agro-processing machinery and equipment) and registration of farmers across the potential clusters. For instance, Lagos State APPEALS has registered and validated about 2,000 farmers and entrepreneurs from 66 clusters