Precooked beans for food, nutrition, and income in Kenya and Uganda
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2020-02-07
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A ready-to-eat bean snack, bean flour, and easy-to-cook bean product have been developed through this successful project. The aim was to develop and promote precooked bean products to increase bean consumption, reduce time spent on cooking, and create more lucrative markets for bean farmers. A seed credit model (SCM) has supplied farmers with 71,810 kg of seed through four seasons of the project’s operation and supplied 880,595 kg for further seed and grain production. Two production facilities have been established; one in Kisumu (Kenya) and one in Mukono (Uganda). Consumer acceptance for precooked beans is 89.1%.
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FOOD INDUSTRY, LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS, LEGUMES, BEANS, FOOD PROCESSING, FOOD SECURITY, HUMAN NUTRITION, GRAIN, AGRICULTURAL CREDIT, KENYA, UGANDA, SOUTH OF SAHARA