Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage bags are opened during a May 2011 ceremony in Pala, Chad. The hermetic grain storage bags have allowed farmers in Africa to safely store their cowpea grain so they ...

The PICS technology, which received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a triple layer sealed plastic bag that cuts off the oxygen supply to create hermetic conditions, thereby ...

An Anaaji bag is an improved multilayer hermetic grain storage technology, which requires no fumigation or chemical application. It preserves the quality and germination capacity of stored seeds.

Hermetic storage bags preserve the dried cereals and pulses ... storage and suffocates any living organisms inside. The stored grain can last up to two years and the bag is reusable.

Hermetic bags are a cost-efficient storage solution that provides effective chemical-free protection to grain during storage. Because PICS bags eliminate crop storage losses and extend shelf life, ...

Prof Mvumi said Zimbabwe needs to aggressively promote the uptake of hermetic grain storage bags to minimise post-harvest losses and improve the livelihoods of the majority of smallholder farmers ...

THE shortage of grain ... grain storage facilities,” says a senior official of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research. “Now we are better off than in 2010.” Silo bags are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The hermetic grain storage bags that cut off oxygen to weevils and have saved West and Central African farmers hundreds of millions of dollars by putting the brakes on the ...