OZSTAR has the best roasters of various capacities to give you the perfectly roasted peanuts! We also provide additional equipment for flavouring and seasoning the nuts. OZSTAR also provides additional flavoring and seasoning equipment for nuts We manufacture different capacity to suit demand. This stainless steel is of high quality and can be controlled from the touch screen control panel.
Bacterial disease caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum is economically important and widespread in China and Indonesia. The important viral disease is a seed-borne groundnut mottle virus, which is found in most production areas. Finally, weeds are important biotic factors causing significant yield losses; they compete with the crop for space, nutrients, light and water, and act as alternative hosts for various other pests and diseases.
Nutsedge (Cyperus sp.), morning glory (Ipomea sp.), pigweed (Amaranthus sp.) and crabgrass (Digitaria sp.) all cause significant yield losses in groundnuts. Among the various production constraints cited above environmental constraints like drought stress and hot air and soil temperatures are the major targets of research in the SAT.
These environmental constraints are of more concern because of the likely effects of global warming and climate change on agriculture. Aflatoxin incidence in groundnut poses a continuing potential threat to peanut producers and consumers across the globe. Because of aflatoxin health risk, food inspection and regulatory agencies are continually decreasing the tolerance limits of aflatoxin in peanut products.
Aflatoxins are produced by the fungi Aspergillus flavus Link ex. Fries and Aspergillus parasiticus Speare. Aflatoxins (mainly AFB1) have been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Group 1 Carcinogen, i.e. substances that can cause cancer in humans and animals. Chronic exposure to dietary aflatoxins is evident from the presence in human breast milk, blood and serum samples in Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Thailand. It is also found in milk products of cows fed with aflatoxin contaminated feed in India.
Because of the potential health hazard of aflatoxin, stringent laws with very low threshold levels in food products are set by regulatory agencies in the United States and Europe. Aflatoxin contamination is a major agricultural problem with health concern in the United States. Studies in the US, based on FDA sample data from farms and computer simulations, estimate that crop losses from mycotoxin contamination of peanut, corn and wheat average about $900 million annually.
Aflatoxin production in groundnut is two-folds (a)
it can occur during pod development before harvest (pre-harvest contamination)
and (b) it can also occur at post-harvest stages when harvested pods are not
dried properly, or if storage facilities are not well maintained. Pre-harvest
infection by Aspergillus and consequent aflatoxin incidence is strongly
associated with the occurrence of drought stress during the last 3-6 weeks of the growing season.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder