Hermetic Bags Help Afghan Rural Women Preserve Wheat Flour during Winter

• Published in: Insects (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 13; no. 3; p. 237
• Main Authors: Baributsa, Dieudonne, Baoua, Ibrahim B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 27.02.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Afghanistan; Baking; Bread; Color; Consumers; Developing countries; Economics; Experiments; Farms; Flour; Food security; hermetic bags; Households; Humidity; insect infestation; Insects; LDCs; Moisture content; Moisture effects; Pests; Polypropylene; Profitability; quality loss; Relative humidity; Storage; Towns; Variables; Water content; Wheat; wheat flour storage; Women; Afghanistan; Afghanistan; quality loss; hermetic bags; insect infestation; wheat flour storage

On-farm preservation of wheat flour is a challenge due to insect pests and high relative humidity. This experiment was conducted to assess the effectiveness of hermetic bags in preserving wheat flour stored by women during the wintertime when relative humidity is high. Forty women (households) from...