For the development of this facility, NRI gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of The Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC).
The colourful cartoons used to illustrate the text were drawn by Movin Ware. Data on different store types was contributed by numerous grain storage specialists who gave freely of their own time to complete questionnaires for one or more store types. Their responses are summarised in the survey report. The questionnaire survey asked if contributors would like to be acknowldeged, not all of them consented, but those that did are listed below.
| Contributor | Affiliation |
| Bernadette Majebelle | Pee Pee Ltd, Tanzania |
| Brighton Mvumi | University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe |
| Nick Brown | A To Z Textile Mills Limited, Arusha, Tanzania |
| Cephas Taruvinga | UN Food and Agricultural Organisation |
| Charles Singano | Chitedze Agricultural Research Station, Malawi |
| Daniel Obeng-Ofori | University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana |
| Dieudonne Baributsa | Purdue University, USA |
| Kerstin HELL | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| Eric Haraman | Department of Crop Development, Malawi |
| Fuseini Haruna Andan | Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana |
| Hippolyte Affognon | International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya |
| Jacob Anankware | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology/Aspire Food Group, Ghana |
| James Mwangi Ndiritu | Vestergaard Group S.A, Switzerland |
| Kimondo Mutambuki | Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation, Kenya |
| Larry Murdoch | Purdue University, USA |
| Marko Mbilinyi | HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Tanzania |
| Martin Gummert | International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines |
| Rick Hodges | Natural Resources Institute, U. of Greenwich, UK |
| Samuel Addo | Ho Polytechnic, Ghana |
| Sophie Walker | ACDI/VOCA, Kenya |
| Suraj Devani | Pee Pee Ltd Tanzania |
| Tahirou Abdoulaye | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| Tanya Stathers | Natural Resources Institute, U. of Greenwich, UK |