In the present scenario, food security is one of the major concerns in the Indian context;
engendered due to increased population and other associated anthropological activities …

In a developing country like India, having the second largest population and agriculture as
the source of income to nearly 60% of the total population, post-harvest and storage loss is a …

The tremendous rise in demand for energy has led to a scarcity of conventional sources of
energy like fossil fuels, thereby pushing us in search of alternative sources of energy. Sun is …

Inappropriate food conservation practices along with insufficient and inefficient storage
systems are often responsible for the deterioration in food quality of agricultural products …

Solar drying is one of the most efficient and cost-effective, renewable, and sustainable
technologies to conserve agricultural products in Asian and sub-Saharan African (SSA) …

Africa has a very high solar insolation and a large agrarian sector with a lot of drying of
agricultural products carried out with mostly open sun drying. However, efforts have been …

According to investigations around 15% of the today's world population is undernourished.
The increase of world's population, which is predicted to be around 3 billion people within …

In the absence of effective drying techniques, a lot of food gets wasted as there is a lack of
post-harvest processes. In India, most of the agricultural produces like paddy, maize, wheat …

Preservation of fruits, vegetables, and food are essential for keeping them for a long time
without further deterioration in the quality of the product. Several process tech‐nologies …

India is one of the highly developing countries in the world and it has the second-largest
agricultural source of income, which covers 61% of the entire income of the country. The …