RASP is an off-the-grid robust solar powered refrigeration system that will reduce food loss at every stage from Post Harvest to short and long term storage to maximze the income of farners, and the availabiluty of food for both local and international consumption. It is scalable and adapatable to both size and type of prroduct being stored. It can provide for storage of meat, fish, dairy as well as crops of all types. Grains can last for years under proper cool storage.

1. A Solution to Save Food to Feed the World
In today’s world of growing populations and food needs, we are revisiting, with respect to
agriculture, the old adage "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats
for a lifetime." However, too often in the developing world, we are letting the newly-educated
man down by not providing him with infrastructure needed to save, sell, or transport what he
grows.
India, Africa, Latin America and other developing regions continue to face crippling hunger and
poverty rates. Despite the consistent production of agricultural products, the post-harvest loss
rate for fruits and vegetables hovers around 40% and has remained there for years, undermining
the ability of local farmers to feed their countrymen and develop exports. The total spoilage of
post-harvest loss hovers around 1.3 billion tons.
Some important facts and figures:
n In India only 2% of products are temperature controlled
n Post-harvest losses cost China at least $6 billion per year and Pakistan $1 billion
n In Panama post-harvest losses approach 60 %
n In Sub-Saharan Africa, post-harvest losses of horticultural crops range from 30 percent to
an astonishing 80 percent.
To address this world-wide problem of spoilage and to improve the potential for developing
countries to feed their populations, Nenko Advisors International, LLC has developed a concept
unique in concept and implementation: RASP®.
What is RASP®?
RASP® is an off-the-grid, alternative energy, agricultural cold storage facility aimed at
preventing post-harvest loss of fruits and vegetables worldwide. With RASP®, we combine the
latest in cold storage manufacturing technology and control with a specially designed PV solar
power as the energy source. Using electronically integrated systems, combined with proprietary
control units, RASP® produces a cold storage product potentially capable of dramatically
reducing the loss of fruits and vegetables in the developing economies of the world.
The RASP® cold room can be located at any point in the supply chain, from the farm, to the
village, to the export center. The current service life of this power system is projected to be 25
years.
The RASP® cold room is planned to be 24 ft x 10 ft x 8 ft. but scalable to meet the needs of each
geogrphical area and can become part of a complete hub and spoke distribution and storage
system.
The entire system, which includes the solar power arrays, battery storage banks, control units and
cold room, can be easily assembled in a matter of days by a small team of semi-skilled workers.
The amount of crops that can be stored in each RASP® unit is estimated at a minimum of 10
metric tons, with scalability to larger capacities possible and anticipated.

2. Why RASP®?
RASP® supplies the missing link in the cold chain with ease of deployment, cost effectiveness,
ease of operation, low maintenance, scalability and the ability to be remotely controlled and
monitored.
It also has the potential to allow farmers globally to maximize their crop production by utilizing
all of the land that they have available to plant. RASP® will allow farmers to harvest crops when
they are at the right time to be harvested and therefore maximizing the potential for income. In
many cases our research shows that crops are picked when the “middle man” is coming not when
the farmer should.
When fully deployed, RASP® should dramatically increase the amount of cold storage available
worldwide and can play a key role in solving the puzzle of reducing world-wide crop spoilage.
What Next for RASP®?
The developers of RASP® are seeking the funding to erect its demonstration unit in the US and
this number pales in comparison to the following statistics found on www.stopthehunger.com
There over 896 million people in the world who are undernourished. Over $4.5 Million is spent
on daily subsistence food aid, which represents over $1.97 Billion per year. The $1.97 Billion
would pay for over 10,600 RASP® units, which in turn could feed many more people and by
using local products rather than imported crops.
The RASP® team once the demonstration is built will show the potential customers we have that
our solution can truly help feed the world and truly make “fishermen” out of every farmer
globally.
The world needs to go beyond studies and investigations and programs on growing more but
needs to invest in solutions like RASP® that focus on saving what is already grown, provides
access to more income for farmers globally, and improving the infrastructure in those areas of the
world that need it the most.
Bruce H. Rubin
Nenko Advisors International, LLC