Strategies for Sustainable Food Processing and Preservation

Abstract

The time to ensure abundance in food supply to feed the citizenry cannot be better than the present time when the population of Nigeria is increasing at alarming rate. Developing food processing and preservation technologies that can curb food losses and wastage during glut seasons cannot be overemphasized. This paper dealt with various food processing techniques as well as preservation methods and compared them with what obtains in the western world to bring out possible cross fertilization of useful ideas for the Nigerian society.