12 Years in a Cocoon™

12 years ago, large amounts of maize were stored in Ultra Hermetic™ GrainPro Cocoons™ by the Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture. Their goal was to determine how long the Cocoons can keep commodities safe from moisture ingress, infestation and fungal growth. 

This movie documents the result of the maize that were stored in Cocoons for 12 years in Rwanda.

The Cocoons were recently opened by local agriculture experts from the Ministry of Agriculture. Inside are well-preserved maize without infestation and fungal growth. While it's not advisable to preserve commodities for such an extended period of time, this is proof that GrainPro's Cocoon can safely preserve commodities for long periods and protect it from factors that could result to its deterioration. 

The testimonials in this movie are from actual witnesses and observers who were present when the Cocoons were opened.

• GrainPro does not recommend storing maize or any other dry agricultural commodity beyond its nutritional retention and prescribed storage periods. This test was conducted for scientific purposes only.

I was given the task of producing a short documentary about GrainPro's recent success in Rwanda, where the government stored thousands of tonnes of maize (corn) in 2002, and found it's still in good condition after 12 years of storage.

The original video from the Rwandan production team is in very poor quality. I had to overhaul the script, enhance the videos, add some effects, background music and animations, and re-dub the whole movie.

After producing this enhanced version, our executives at GrainPro were very pleased. Let's just say that they realized that we can produce professional-grade movies.