Regulatory barriers (RB) suggest that lack of access to markets, capital, packaging material and poor food processing technology make it difficult for women entrepreneurs to process food products in large volume, high quality and meet required international standards.
Small factories process food, and boats are built and repaired.
For companies that make and process food, "significant retooling is underway", Maltby said.
But the canning, freezing and dehydrating techniques used to process food destroy much of its flavour.
The plant, which employs 400 people, continued to process food but stopped packaging juice boxes.
The closest facility to process food waste for composting is 150 miles from the city.
And under a separate new permitting process, food trucks are also being allowed to operate in city parks.
In a closed-loop nutrient recycling process, food waste would be brought to an AD plant and heat treated to pasteurise it, killing off any pathogens.
Most manufacturing enterprises process food and other agricultural products or make construction materials or consumer goods, the bulk of production being for the domestic market.
The industrial suburb of Sungai Besi ("Iron River") has iron foundries and engineering works and factories that process food and soap.
One of those patients has been Matthew Swan, a third-grader, who has a serious congenital condition called Hirschsprung's disease that affects his large intestine's ability to process food.
