{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["82"],"submitter":["Pretari A"],"pubmed_abstract":["We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages and were widely adopted. Others (a mobile drying service and hermetic storage bags) were provided free to a subset of randomly selected farmers in treatment villages while others had to pay. Overall, the intervention reduced aflatoxin contamination by over 50%. Most of this reduction appears to be due training and the use of drying sheets, the lowest-cost of all the technologies offered."],"journal":["Journal of stored products research"],"pagination":["31-39"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC7001978"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya."],"pmcid":["PMC7001978"],"pubmed_authors":["Tian L","Hoffmann V","Pretari A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Post-harvest practices for aflatoxin control: Evidence from Kenya.","description":"We assess the impact of a package of post-harvest technologies on aflatoxin contamination of maize through a randomized trial in rural Kenya. Some elements of this package (training and provision of plastic sheets for sun-drying) were provided free of charge to all participants in treatment villages and were widely adopted. Others (a mobile drying service and hermetic storage bags) were provided free to a subset of randomly selected farmers in treatment villages while others had to pay. Overall, the intervention reduced aflatoxin contamination by over 50%. Most of this reduction appears to be due training and the use of drying sheets, the lowest-cost of all the technologies offered.","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019 Jun","modification":"2022-02-09T11:13:37.132Z","creation":"2020-05-22T10:22:30Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC7001978","cross_references":{"pubmed":["32055077"],"doi":["10.1016/j.jspr.2019.03.001"]}}