ISO 22000 Food producers all over the world have a responsibility to make sure that their products are not harmful to consumers. Unsafe food can cause serious and fatal problems. In order to help them with this, the ISO 22000 food safety management system was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 22000 helps food producers to identify and control food safety hazards and ensure that their products are safe for public consumption. In addition it helps products to cross country borders and bring to people the food that they can trust. ISO 22000 applies ..read more

GAP    (Good Agricultural Practices) Global G.A.P. is a private sector organisation that develops and establishes voluntary standards for the certification of agricultural products around the world. Their mission is to establish a set of standards that: Facilitate Good Agricultural Practices. Minimize the detrimental effects of farming operations on the environment.  Aim at reducing the use of chemical usage. Ensures the safety of agricultural workers as well as animals. Ensures that vegetables and fruits are produced, packed, handled, and stored as safely as possible ..read more

Dehydrated fruits, vegetables and meat items are getting famous among most of the people. Therefore these products create a huge market all around the world. Therefore it is good to know about dehydration process and various methods that can be used to dehydrate food products.  Sun drying This is the general practice since many years. Still in most of our home we used to dry things using this sun drying method. Sun drying is very effective in places with long periods of hot sun specially countries near to equator. Also anywhere with a minimum temperature of 28 – 30 C with less relative ..read more

This is really a hard part in the business. Without buyers you do not have business. First of all you should decide whether you are going to target retails buyers/customers or Bulk buyers/customers. Depending on that, your strategies for persuading buyers will vary. However most common methods of finding buyers are mentioned here 1. Direct Negotiations with Shops and Supermarkets. – You can use your personal contacts and negotiate with some shops and supermarkets to sell your products. Obviously you have to give them some commission. This is good for small scale businesses to target the ret ..read more

Selecting a suitable property is directly involved with the cost of products. Main property you need for an agriculture business is a land, if you are going to start an agriculture farming business or building if you are thinking about a value added products.  Regardless of the property type you have to consider below factors when selecting.  1. Distance to end market and raw materials – If you select a place that is so far from your market or raw material supply, you have to add extra transport cost and wastage cost to the production. Therefore it is recommended to minimize th ..read more

There are many businesses in the world that anyone can do with some risk. Starting a low risk business is a wise decision. At present many businesses face many challenges such as global economic tensions, wars, pandemics, political issues, technological issues, etc. However, no matter the situation, all the people in the world need food and agriculture products as basic needs to survive. Since the population grows, market demand for the agriculture products is rising with the time. Therefore in this situation it is wise decision to start an agriculture business.  In this article you wil ..read more

At present, Organic farming methods are spreading fast around the world as a pandemic. The main reason for moving towards the organic farming is the increase in non-transferable diseases like diabetes, various types of cancers, high blood pressure, Heart diseases and kidney diseases. When practicing organic farming, it is important to use organic pesticides instead of chemical/artificial pesticides to achieve the real objective of the organic farming. This article explains how to make and use simple recipe of organic insecticide which will helpful to repel mealybug, grasshoppers, stem borers ..read more

Cassava is a tropical root crop rich in starch that is consumed by over 500 million people all over the world. It is a food that content high amount of carbohydrates among all the common staple foods. Though cassava can be eat directly as a food, cassava is widely used to make many other products like cassava flour, Chips, animal food, alcohol, sweeteners, bio-degradable products and starches for sizing papers, etc. farmers can become manufacturers my producing one or few of these products and earn some more profit than selling raw cassava. This article will explain few of these products and g ..read more

Although ginger is a common spice specially in Asian region, it has been used for many countries all over the world. However, it is a diverse spice in India and China and it is mainly used in cuisines in Asia. Not only as a spice ginger can be used to make many food products and medicines which give a real value addition to the harvest. Also making ginger related products can be considered as a post harvest management technique. Let's learn more about the most common ginger products in the world and farmers can become a manufacturers by manufacturing any of these products and make some more p ..read more

Cultivation of green gram or mung bean is been practiced for a long period of time. Farmers from all around the world cultivate the green gram mostly for consumption and also for export purposes. Green gram can be farmed domestic scale or commercial scale. In most remote area of African countries the crop is mainly grown for domestic consumption. Whereas in countries like  India, Indonesia, the green gram is mainly grown as a commercial cultivation which  contributes to the GDP of the country.  Mung beans  can be grown either as a single crop (mono-cropping) or as ..read more