Download or read book Value from Village Processing written by Peter Fellows and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary crop processing can create diversified incomes and employement for farmers in rural villages. Processing brings many differenet benefits to communities: it allows foods to be preserved and stored as a reserve against times of shortage, it helps to avoid the effects of lowered prices when seasonal gluts occur at harvest time, it creates special foods for cultural idenity and it enables farmers to add value to crops and animal products that diversify and increase sources of income.