{"id":17627,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/tanzania-farmers-save-on-labor-and-cut-food-losses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:06:07","slug":"tanzania-farmers-save-on-labor-and-cut-food-losses","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/tanzania-farmers-save-on-labor-and-cut-food-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania farmers save on labor and cut food losses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Farmers shelling maize at Yohana Isaya\u2019s farm during the postharvest training organized by the Africa RISING\u2013NAFAKA scaling project in Ndurugumi village<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor 56-year old Yohana Isaya, a farmer from Ndurungumi village in Kongwa District, central Tanzania, maize farming was always a losing game: a stressful, but extremely important subsistence venture. He has to do something or how else would he feed his family?\n\nTo begin with, shelling the maize harvest from his 5-acre plot was a back-breaking job which he, together with his wife and their five children couldn\u2019t do on their own. They needed the help of at least eight extra pairs of hands to finish the job in three days. Isaya would then use the traditional\u00a0\u201cKilindo\u201d,\u00a0a small cylindrical traditional bin made from peeled\u00a0miombo\u00a0tree barks, to store his maize to be used sparingly for feeding his family. Most of the time, nearly half the stored maize would be moldy and inedible.\n\nWhat he didn\u2019t know then was that there was a better way. There were new and efficient postharvest technologies developed by IITA\u2019s\u00a0AfricaRISING Project<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that could change the zero sum game that maize farming and storage had become to a winning one.\n\n\u201cBefore joining\u00a0the Africa RISING-NAFAKA-TUBORESHE CHAKULA scaling project<\/u><\/a>\u00a0activities and training, I was using a raised wood platform for shelling maize. Usually it took me up to three days to shell 700 kilograms. We sometimes had to ask for help from our neighbors whom we\u2019d have to compensate by providing food, local brew, and sometimes cash. But, after the project trained us on using simple and affordable machines like the motorized maize sheller, the same kind of work now takes only 30 minutes,\u201d\u00a0explained Yohana.\n\nBut it is not only the maize shelling machines that the farmers have been introduced to. The postharvest training have also focused on a complete package of technologies including collapsible drier cases capable of drying 400 kg maize in five hours in the sun, and storage using hermetic bags. As a result, farmers have been able to reduce the amount of time spent on crop processing, reduced food losses, and improved food security in their households.\n\nThe Africa RISING-NAFAKA-TUBORESHE CHAKULA scaling project aims to scale the use of postharvest technologies among 47,000 Tanzanian smallholder farmers.\n\nRecent studies in the semi-arid areas of northern and central Tanzania have shown that 20\u221240% of grains and legumes are usually lost during harvesting; a further 5% is lost during shelling\u2212even when the amount of grains shelled per day was very small due to drudgery and the lack of improved shelling technologies; a further 15\u221225% is lost during storage.\n\nPractices like drying crops on the bare floor also often lead to contamination and storage when the moisture content is high leading to deterioration. These challenges are what drove the project to introduce postharvest technologies to the Tanzanian farmers.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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