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Systemic Change Area 1: Enhancing availability and adoption of improved post-harvest technologies and good post-harvest practices.
In this systemic change area, the aim is to support smallholder farmers and processors in reducing:
- Maize post-harvest losses.
- Incidences of aflatoxin (which limit access to markets and pose serious health hazard to consumers) and
- (Inefficiencies in the marketing of maize products from farmers. Three specific interventions have been proposed:
- Enhancing availability and adoption of improved post-harvest technologies, in particular: handling, shelling, drying, and storage technologies
- Enhancing access to and adoption of good post-harvest handling practices (GPHP)
- Enhancing adoption of and compliance with:
- maize product, processing, and handling quality standards, and
- weights and measures, so as maximize their benefits to farmers from selling their produce