Elite Hermetic Bag
Your Grain Storage Solution!
Hermetic - (seal or closure) complete and airtight. "a hermetic seal that ensures perfect waterproofing"
Food Security, Storage, and Safety
Health and Food Security: Every family needs access to safe, clean, food throughout the year. Store your maize, beans, sorghum, or rice in our bags to eat or sell at your leisure. The hermetic storage environment can even prevent the growth of dangerous aflatoxins.
More Food – Better Food
Elite provides improved storage bags to safeguard the crops of our hard-working farmers. The Hermetic storage bag deprives the insects of oxygen, causing them to cease feeding. This leads them to stop growing, developing and reproducing, ultimately dying within 5 to 6 days.
Clean and Organic
Our Hermetic grain bags allow safe storage of cereals for several years without the use of insecticide or any other chemicals. They keep the cereal in pristine condition, without insect damage. Perfect for all types of cereals, including maize, rice, beans, sorghum, millet and cowpeas.
Take care of your precious grains and hard work!
Hermetic - (seal or closure) complete and airtight. "a hermetic seal that ensures perfect waterproofing"
Understanding the Hermetic System of Grain Storage
Sealed or hermetic storage systems are the best ways of controlling grain moisture content and pest activities for grain storage in tropical regions. The system involves placing an airtight barrier between the grain and the outside atmosphere.
The moisture content of the grain remains the same when sealed. The ongoing biological activities inside the sealed bag will consume the oxygen, causing death to most insects. A hermetic system is the best solution for storing grains without pesticides.
Sealed or hermetic storage systems are the best ways of controlling grain moisture content and pest activities for grain storage in tropical regions. The system involves placing an airtight barrier between the grain and the outside atmosphere.
The moisture content of the grain remains the same when sealed. The ongoing biological activities inside the sealed bag will consume the oxygen, causing death to most insects. A hermetic system is the best solution for storing grains without pesticides.
Quotes from Larry Murdock – Professor of Insect Physiology of Purdue University
“A female weevil can have as many as 100 offspring in one month, so just a few can cause significant loss in a short amount of time”. "After three or four months, everything is destroyed,"
"The insects are like hard-rock miners chipping away to get something to eat,"
“Weevils produce much of their water themselves through metabolic processes. When oxygen in the bags decreases, the weevils cannot use it to create water, and instead of suffocating, they eventually die of thirst”
"The hermetic storage bag, work because depriving the insects of oxygen causes them to cease feeding. This leads them to stop growing, developing and reproducing, which prevents them from becoming a problem,"
"We believe the benefits of this insecticide-free, low-cost way of storing grain will be manifold,"
