Resources Tagged: Vita

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  1. Making Charcoal: The Retort Method

    1980-01-06 This book on making charcoal by the retort method is primarily for people in international development. It includes information on construction, operation, and maintenance when using the retort method. 27 pages, illustrations
    VITA Kilns Charcoal Charcoal Utilization Retort method Charcoal production

  2. Small Michell (Banki) Turbine: A Construction Manual

    1980-01-01 This book is one of a series of manuals on renewable energy technologies. It is primarily intended for use by people in international development projects. The construction techniques and ideas presented here are, however, useful to anyone seeking to become energy self-sufficient. 80 pages,...
    Maintenance and Re... Motor Maintenance VITA Construction Manual Engines Internal Combustio...

  3. Environmentally Sound Small-Scale Livestock Projects

    This manual is designed for development assistance workers and others who are planning or managing small-scale livestock projects. Although aimed specifically at those working in less-developed areas of the tropics and subtropics, these environmental guidelines apply to almost any region of the...
    Ecology Animal Production Livestock Producti... VITA Livestock projects Environmental Aspects Livestock Development Small Scale

  4. Gardening with the Seasons

    1979-01-01 This bulletin provides background, nutritional information and planting instructions for a large number of vegetables--including pumpkin, yam, cowpea, cucumber, okra--grown in Bangladesh. Illustrations of planting techniques and of the vegetables themselves are provided.
    VITA Vegetables Bangladesh Okra Cowpea Yams Pumpkin Seasonal Gardening Gardening

  5. Understanding Scrap Metal Recycling

    1984-01-01 Metal scrap, although unfamiliar to most people, is one of the world's larger industries with regard to the number of companies and people employed, weight of material handled and value of equipment used. It offers exceptionally good opportunities, for creating new businesses in developing...
    Downloads VITA Scrap metal Recycling Metal

  6. Double-Drum Sawdust Stove

    1988-01-01 In the United States, sawdust traditionally has been burned in large furnaces for industrial heating, in smaller furnaces for home heating, and in fireplaces in the form of compressed logs. In other parts of the world, loose sawdust has been burned for years in inexpensive double-drum stoves....
    Downloads VITA Double-Drum Stove Cookstoves Sawdust Stoves

  7. Making Building Blocks with the CINVA-Ram Block Press

    1977-01-01 This manual combines the experience of four men who used the CINVA-Ram Block Press and figured out answers, bit by bit, to the inevitable problems of detail as they came up day after day. That was the hard way to learn how to use the press; this handbook is intended to make it easier.
    Downloads VITA Block Press CINVA-Ram Construction

  8. Understanding Poultry Meat And Egg Production

    1984-01-01 Since ancient times, chickens, ducks, and geese have served farming communities by gleaning the fields of grain that otherwise would be lost; picking up grain that is dropped by the wayside in threshing, drying, and transportation; making productive use of the scraps from the family table; and,...
    Downloads VITA Poultry Meat Poultry production Egg Production

  9. Chris Ahrens' Greenhouse

    1981-01-01 This prefabricated greenhouse can be added to the south side of an existing house for under $225.
    Low-Cost Downloads VITA Design & Construction Greenhouse Constru... Greenhouse

  10. Testing The Efficiency Of Wood-Burning Cookstoves

    1985-01-01 This document includes the step by step procedures for each of the standardized tests, followed by Procedural Notes that give specific suggestions for conducting the tests. The sample data and reporting forms included for each test are designed to simplify the recording of essential information....
    Efficiency Efficient Resourse... Testing VITA Cookstoves Wood-Burning Stoves