Farmer builds his own oven for drying macadamias
Valley Macadamia's Farmer of the Year, Bill Bales-Smith, has built a drying oven for less than K7 000 and it saves him about K200 000 in the drying costs of his macadamias. For most macadamia nut farmers, the cost of erecting and operating electric drying units is extremely high, or…