Performance Control for a Safe and Precision Solar Drying of Curative and Aromatic Herbs
Abstract
At present, the goal of Mexican agriculture besides of achieving a sustainable development is giving more emphasis towards improving productivity and product quality, farming profitability, low impact on the environmental and marketing competitiveness. Accordingly, energy saving, high productivity and reducing losses is the goal of many industrial and agricultural processing businesses. Rural communities in dryland areas are engaged on gathering cultivated and wild herbs, brushes and plants needed for medicinal and aromatic purposes. In order to enroll rural communities on a sustainable development, profiting from value added products comes from learning the harmful effects any unacceptable activities have on the environment. However, in order to fully understand their challengers at rural level it is important to evaluate all involved aspects, such as; non-rational exploitation of natural resources, they lack of a visionless entrepreneurship, many farms are disappearing because cultivation and gathering vegetative materials is a low yield and unprofitable activity, there is a steadily increase of importing farm products, a market structure is nonexistent so there are deficiencies to supply the quantity of farm produce requested and of standard quality. These factors are an obstacle to achieve adequate competitive levels; therefore, profitability is reduced, so this sector is far away from capitalizing.