Development and Evaluation of Farm Level Turmeric Processing Equipment

摘要

The post harvest unit operations of turmeric, I.e. cleaning, curing, drying, polishing, grading are carried out manually by conventional methods which are slow, tedious and labour-intensive. Attempts have been made to develop different post harvest equipment for turmeric such as washer (capacity- 200 kg/ h), curing unit (capacity- 100 kg/ h), polisher (capacity- 100 kg/h) and grader (capacity- 200kg/h) to reduce drudgery, labour cost and maintain the quality of the final product. During field testing, it was observed that all the equipment were operating satisfactorily and could be used in the farm level.