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Agro-Technology Information and Africa-Centered Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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In 1982 I left Ghana, as director of the Food Research Institute, for Cameroon. The next three years were spent researching and gathering information and data on alternative, affordable, manageable and sustainable processes that can be put together to form workable agro-industrial systems for use in Africa.
In 1984 I started experimenting with the organic system of crop production as an affordable improvement to the traditional multiple and multi-story cropping system. Several fruit trees—guava, carambola, sour sop, mango and avocado—were planted in a backyard plot of about twenty meters by nine meters or 180 square meters to which compost was applied.
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J. Maud Kordylas was formerly the director of the Food Research Institute of Ghana. While in office, she was confronted with the complex problems of development of the Ghanaian agro-industrial sector. She left Ghana in 1982 for Cameroon where she has since set up a small laboratory to carry out research into alternative systems that can be adopted for food production and processing, which would be in harmony with the African socio-economic environment.
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1. See Kordylas, J. Maud, Processing And Preservation Of Tropical And Sub-Tropical Foods, London, Macmillan, 1990 Google Scholar.
2. See Ibid, for basic information used for the production of food samples.
3. Jaycox, E.V.K., “Structural Adjustment In Sub-Saharan Africa: The World Bank’s Perspective”, Issue, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 1989, pp. 36-40Google Scholar.