National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Groundnut is the sixth major important oilseed crop in the whole world and it is cultivated by farmers in Chhattisgarh. Groundnut decortication is a time-consuming and tedious process. This process gives less output and requires high efforts by the user and eventually higher energy input. Today, many of the commercially available decorticator which are operated by hand, fall in this category. Therefore it was conceived to develop such a machine which will require less effort with less energy consumption. Overall dimension of main frame are 1760 mm x 803 mm x 1100 mm. The performance evaluation of pedal operated groundnut decorticator was evaluated by different treatment combination of clearances and moisture contents. Different clearance between rotating drum and rubbing plate i.e. 8 mm, 10 mm and 12 mm and different moisture contents of ground nut pod i.e. 6.53%, 7.85% and 9.23% dry basis were observed. The Decorticating capacity, output capacity, decorticating efficiency, unshelled pod and kernel broken were 92.41 kg/h, 51.95 kg kernels/h, 86.37 %, 13.62% and 15.65% respectively at the best optimum combination of clearance and moisture content of 10 mm and 6.53 % respectively were found. The total cost charged for the development of per unit pedal operated groundnut decorticator was ₹ 14000 and the operational cost was 90.43₹/h including fixed and variable cost. The cost required to decorticate 1 kg of groundnut pod was found ₹ 0.97. The developed pedal operated groundnut decorticator is reliable and satisfactory for the selected variety of groundnut.
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