Selected Topic

Reducing food loss and waste.

Project Description

For food systems to be resilient, we need efficient local and adapted agriculture. The agricultural products produced by farmers/families in Africa suffer from heavy post-harvest losses. Today, 30-50% of products still spoil after harvesting due to lack of processing facilities. Farmers have to sell at poor prices during the harvest. The value added and the income opportunities are taken away from the producer/farmer. It is important that we train and educate farmers better and transfer our knowledge. We have to offer customer-, country- and market-specific machines that make agriculture in Africa better and more efficient. We have adapted our programme and a large number of machines to local needs. For example, we have small manual and electric maize sheller so that the women in the village do not have to gin the grains by hand. We have developed small mobile dryers that can be used in the sense of a machinery ring or village communities. It is immensely important to make agricultural products storable after the harvest so that the products can be processed later. Only with adapted education and training, adapted technology is a sustainable and safe food supply possible.

About the Institution

Riela Africa is a subsidiary of RIELA Karl-Heinz-Knoop e.K. founded in 2021. RIELA is a major manufacturer of machinery and equipment for grain processing. This includes silo conveying and drying plants, as well as grinding and mixing plants for the production of animal feed.

The range of products also includes belt drying plants and push-turn dryers for the drying of biomass or foodstuffs.
RIELA has set itself the goal of offering its customers energy-efficient products and also demanding energy-efficient and sustainable production from itself.

Contact Person: Klaus Kunkemöller