08 Project Profiles: Recent submissions

  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Pasta can best be defined as the generic term for a class of products made by forming unleavened dough into a variety of shapes and drying them from 28-30% to 12-13% moisture. Pasta products have been known in Europe for ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    From the early times of mankind bread has been a basic food in many parts of the world. When people started to turn their backs to labourious farmlife and started instead life in settlements that were to develop into ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Generally coffee processing is separated into processing in the producer countries and processing in the consumer countries. In the producing countries the coffee is grown and prepared for export as green coffee beans. ...
  • Margarine 
    Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    In the course of the past 50 years margarine has been developing steadily into a nutrient fat of high dietetic value that in many cases is even preferable to butter. It is spreadable, an ernul- ,sion of certain oils ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Pineapples are an important export product in many countries and well liked as a delicacy in those countries that do not have a warm climate the year round and therefore are less fortunate in their fruit-supply. ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Milk powder contains all those components that make natural untreated milk such a "classic" for a healthy nutrition - proteins, carbohydrates, mineral salts. The production of milk powder offers a chain of advantages: ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    For many years starch and starch containing materials have been converted by means of high temperatures in the presence of catalysts into soluble sweet products. Early in the last century it was discovered that, if ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Palm oil is a constituent of the fruit-pulp of oil palms and is used in the manufacture of soap, candles, and for colouring and scenting ointments. Bleached or slightly hardened it serves also as raw material for the ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Legumes have been known as foodplants, apart from cereals, for a long time. In many countries great importance is attached to pulses for human consumption, especially with a view to their richness in protein. Beans, ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Dates have been appreciated and cultivated since ancient times. For a number of countries dates are the only abundant crop and enjoy a high economic importance. Date palms survive the rigorous climate of sub-tropical ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Sugar cane is the oldest and cheapest source for the production of sugar. The earliest record of sugar cane cultivation in Hindu literature is about 3000 years old. Sugar cane spread slowly to Persia and then to Egypt, ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Kuskus is a pre-cooked and dried product made of hard-wheat semolina, shaped by the agglomeration of two or more semolina granules. Its particle size ranges from 0.85 to 2.5 mm mesh. The above definition of kuskus ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Malt is to a substantial degree used as a raw material in the brewing process, necessitating as much as 10-17 kg malt to produce 1 hl beer based on 100% malt utilization and approx. 10-12 kg/hI beer with the addition ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Acute diarrhoeal diseases are one of the leading causes of mortality in infants and young children in many countries. In most cases, death is caused by dehydration. Dehydration from diarrhoea can be treated simply, ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    As is well-known, automobiles today play a vital role in traffic and transport in the cities as well as in out-of-the-way places throughout the world. It is said that the number of cars constitutes a barometer of the ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Before the advent of plastics, a product of the petrochemical industry, most of the toothbrushes had been made of bamboo and the pig's hair, and for high-grade toothbrushes was used the badger's and the like. ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    A product similar to the carbon paper which is being used today had been used in Europe in the 18th century. In the 19th century the methed of mass production of carbon paper was developed in the U.S.A. and, with the ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    The plant described here manufactures plaster chalk for educational use and industrial use. The demand is approximately 80% for educational use, 15% for industrial use, and 5% for office use. At present the two ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Sign pen is a sort of writing tool called marking pen. It is, together with pencil, pen, ball point p-en, and mechanical pencil, one of the most widely used writing tool. Using felt tip and oily, quick drying ink, ...
  • Unknown author (United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 1987-01)
    Pencils are indispensable for our daily lives. Other writing implements do not possess the pencil's unique characteristics of letting us erase and rewrite what we have written. Trial and error will help us grow as a ...

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