By Our Reporter
Perry Engineering has been contracted to supply and install Uganda’s first ever Alfatoxin removal machine (TOXIscrub) in Soroti at PELA Commodities. The system works by undoing the chemical bond that the Aflatoxin has and changing it to a simple non-toxic double Aldehyde which then disperses.
The system will be able to remove Mycotoxins, Aflatoxin, Ocratoxin, Vomitoxin, Citrinin, Ergot Alkaoids, Patulin, Fumonisins, and Zeralenone. It will treat wheat, maize, barley, rice, oats, peanut, soybean, and beans.
This comes as Uganda seeks to grow its agriculture industry into a more productive and profitable sector. The government has been keen on mechanization of the sector to modernize it to increase exports and make it more self-sustaining.
Towards this end, the agriculture sector has been allocated 1.534 Trillion Shillings for the financial year 2021/2022. This is an increase of more than half from the 940 Billion the sector got in the current budget. This is also 3.3% of the total national budget.
“Agro-processing is one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors and with the services and equipment that Perry Engineering provides, we believe that we will be able to contribute to Uganda’s agriculture industry. With the combination of the right technology, our customers will add the much-needed value to boost agro-production. We already are seeing good results with our customers in Uganda and the other Africa markets,” said David Perry, Managing Director Perry Engineering Services..
With offices in South Africa and Egypt as well as Kampala, Perry Engineering are the designers and manufacturers of grain handling, cleaning, drying, and storage equipment and systems, small-scale flour mills, feed mills, and associated products.
The company supports key industries such as agriculture (farms & commercial grain stores), feed mills, flour mills, flaking mills, waste and recycling, pelleting plants, aggregates, and biomass (woodchip, shavings & sawdust, grass and herbs).
It has a wide range of products which include; continuous mixed flow driers, belt driers, moisture sensor systems, chain & flight conveyors, belt conveyors, belt & bucket elevators, screw conveyors & augers, aspirator pre-cleaners, twin trace conveyors, grain samplers and bins/silos.