2.2 Storage of Crop Produce

• Ways of preparing storage structures before storing crop produce.
• Preparing an existing storage structure or facility: a container, store room, granary or storage bags.
• Practises of preparation: cleaning, dusting, sealing cracks, repairing leakages, emptying previous crop produce and controlling rodents.
• Managing stored crop produce: checking moisture content in cereals and pulses, ensuring ventilation, controlling rodents, turning the produce and disposing of spoilt produce.

• explain ways of preparing storage structures before storing crop produce
• prepare an existing storage structure in readiness for storing crop produce
• manage stored crop produce to reduce spoilage
• show responsibility in managing stored crop produce to reduce spoilage

“How can we prepare the facility in readiness for the storage of crop produce?”

“How should crop produce be managed during storage?”

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1. What is lost after the harvest
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A third of a grain harvest can be lost after it is already in.
2. Storage structures
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Granary, store room, bags and containers — four structures, one job.
3. Emptying and cleaning the store
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The pests are living in last season's leftovers.
4. Sealing cracks and repairing leaks
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Every crack is a door and every leak is a tap.
5. Controlling rodents
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   They foul far more than they eat.
6. Drying before storage
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Damp grain does not keep, and nothing done later repairs that.
7. Testing for moisture
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Two tests cost nothing; the third gives you a number.
8. Ventilation and turning
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Moving air and moving sacks both stop damp heat building up.
9. Inspecting, and dealing with spoilage
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Look weekly. Five signs, and each one has an answer.
10. The whole storage plan
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Clean, repair, dry, manage — three before, one throughout.