Export of value-added produce and the import of basic commodities such as wheat were monopolised by a small group of "entrepreneurs" protected by the security state who financially backed the ruling elite.
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Some urban and peri-urban farmers are even moving towards intensive production of high value-added produce, rather than basic food stuffs; such activities can become major sources of income for more sophisticated members of the population who have investment capacity.
Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising feedstock for production of fuels and other value-added chemicals, produced by microbial conversion of sugars derived via hydrolysis.
Value-added chemicals produced in conjunction to biofuels are important in reducing the risks inherent in the overall economics of a lignocellulosic biorefinery.
The value added produced by all industries in a nation adds up to the nation's gross domestic product.
For instance, in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelOECDnt (OEcountriesriesmalland and medium firms contributed to more than two-thirds of all private employment, and 58.4 % of the total gross-value added produced by private businesses, in 2010 ([Commission 2010]).
Other cases of apparently more diversified agro-industrial activities, based on fruits and vegetables or livestock products, may be equally primitive in their organization, the low degree of value added produced and the lack of linkages both with the chemical and mechanical industries and with marketing and financial services.
In this work, a target value-added chemical succinic acid was produced continuously as the major end product by immobilised A. succinogenes at competitive productivities (1.77 g L−1 h−1), yields (0.78 g g−1) and titres (39.6 g L−1) on a non-detoxified, xylose-rich hydrolysate stream for the first time.
Says investment banker Peter Young, who runs his own chemical banking boutique: "A great deal of the value-added is in producing the product, and only a small amount of it is in processing the order".
