Assignment 6:
Design a postharvest demonstration
Choose one topic from the CSA postharvest extension needs that you identified during you reporting for Assignment #4.
Design a simple postharvest demonstration to target the problem and provide a solution, with cost/benefit information to convince users of its usefulness for reducing losses and improving incomes when used for handling their crop.
A few example demonstration protocols are provided in this folder, but you should select a topic of interest to you. Choose one clearly identified technology (a cooling method, an improved kind of package, or a food processing method, for example).聽
To complete the C/B worksheet for your postharvest technology, think small. 聽Costs and benefits are estimations, and the idea is to provide just one example of how farmers can improve their incomes by using the technology you are teaching them about. Please refer to some of the examples provided from the 2009-10 WFLO project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Prepare a brief report for Assignment #6 on your demonstration idea and submit it to us via email -- your report should include:
1) a statement of the problem聽
2) the brief description of the target audience聽
3) the tools and supplies needed to set up the demonstration
4) the intended demonstration results (reducing losses? improving income?)
5) the costs and benefits (use the provided blank worksheet to compare the current practice to the demonstrated improved practice)聽
Submit your report via email.
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