CSIR-Food Research Institute: annual report 1991

Abstract

The Food Research Institute (FRI) conducts applied research into problems of food processing and preservation, storage, marketing, distribution and utilization and gives advice to industry and the general public on food analysis, quality control, product improvement and development, marketing, distribution and utilization. It is one of the thirteen affiliate institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana. It was set up in 1963 and incorporated in 1965 to assist the local food industry at all levels of organization to improve and diversify their operations, to boost agricultural productivity in Ghana as well as to advise government in the formulation and implementation of its food policy. During the year 1991, research and development work was continued on cassava processing demonstrations, production and marketing of cowpea flour, survey of rice milling in Ghana, storage of staple food crops, the solar energy technology project, and the Ghana-Netherlands Regional Training and Applied Research Project for Artisanal Fish Processing in West Africa