{"id":4346,"date":"2019-09-03T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2019-09-03T21:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:11:20","slug":"making-a-cooling-chamber-for-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2019\/09\/making-a-cooling-chamber-for-tomatoes.html","title":{"rendered":"Making a Cooling Chamber for Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cooling-chamber-tomatoes-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cooling-chamber-tomatoes-1-500x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you pick your tomatoes, if you want to keep them longer, you have to find a way of reducing the temperature. As availability of electricity at village level can be a problem, ways have to be found to lower the temperature of this fragile crop. Some farmers at Dambatta in Kano State, Nigeria have used local mud bricks to make a very effective cooling chamber. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessagriculture.org\/making-cooling-chamber-tomatoes?dm_i=6WS%2C6FMEV%2C3JFVYX%2CPHWUU%2C1\">Watch the video at AccessAgriculture<\/a>. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/practicalaction.org\">Practical Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you pick your tomatoes, if you want to keep them longer, you have to find a way of reducing the temperature. As availability of electricity at village level can be a problem, ways have to be found to lower the temperature of this fragile crop. Some farmers at Dambatta in Kano State, Nigeria have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,315,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}