• The fonio husking machine was invented by Sanoussi Diakité, a Senegalese mechanical engineer. Diakité was awarded the Rolex Award in 1996 for the invention...
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    invention of a simple fonio husking machine offers an easier mechanical way to dehusk. Gender role plays a big part in the cultivation of fonio; tasks are distributed...
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    Digitaria exilis (redirect from White fonio)
    technique is used among the Akposso). The invention of a simple fonio husking machine offers an easier mechanical way to dehusk. The genetic diversity...
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    underutilized crop made a renaissance with the invention of the fonio husking machine by Sanoussi Diakité. (left); Dambun Acha (right).[clarification...
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  • world technology. Key examples are: the Malian peanut sheller the fonio husking machine the screenless hammer mill the ISF corn mill the ISF rice huller...
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  • Sanoussi Diakité, Senegalese mechanical engineer and inventor of the Fonio husking machine Youma Diakite (born 1971), Malian model, actress and television...
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    Harvesting in mechanized agricultural systems is by combine harvester, a machine which drives across the field in a single pass in which it cuts the stalks...
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    of oil palm plantations in the state. Traditional native cereals such as fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) are still grown in the Middle Belt...
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