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FOOD LOSS: Technologies for Cereal Storage and Sustainable Future
Metalmont Automatic Levelling System in a flat storage warehouse
TECHNOLOGIES FOR CEREAL STORAGE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
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In 2011 the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations estimated that every year, about 1/3 of the world’s production of food for human consumption was lost along the food supply chain. 1.3 billion tonnes of food, 30 % of harvested grains and 20% of legumes and seeds have been thrown away annually.
Since 2011, the awareness on this issue has grown and the UN and to remotely control and simplify the whole storage phase.
included it among the Sustainable Development Goals to be reached by 2030, but is this enough? According to the FAO Food loss index, 14 percent of food produced globally and 20–21 percent food produced in Central and Southern Asia in 2016 was lost before even reaching the retail stage: in post-harvesting and storage phases.
The population increase and the climate change are posing a significant challenge: how to minimize the losses of cereals, pulses and other agricultural products that are basic sources of food for human and animal consumption? Since 1995, the Italian company Metalmont helps farmers, traders and animal food producers to minimize the loss of agricultural bulk products like cereals, pulses, seeds, cocoa, coffee, soya and Iacopo Meghini, Metalmont CEO
tion and automatization of storage plants. With a whole range of handling and pre-cleaning equipment, accessories and the Automatic Levelling System for the management of flat storage warehouses, Metalmont experts support the agricultural operators in choosing the right storage solution, in order to preserve their cereal stocks from temperature, humidity or human handling damages, meals, manufacturing machines and solutions for the mechaniza
Metalmont will be glad to share the issues of storage field and present its solutions at AGRITECHNICA ASIA 2020 |14 - 16 October 2020
| BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR CEREAL STORAGE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
