Performance evaluation of manually operated axial flow vegetable seed extracting machine.

摘要

Vegetables are an important part of human diet, rich in vitamins, proteins, minerals, carbohydrates and roughage. At present per capita vegetable consumption of 120 g is less than half of the national norm of 280 g. One of the major causes of low vegetable production is the shortage of good quality seeds. Lack of improved methods and mechanical devices for seed extraction of vegetable crops are among the main limitations in the production of low cost good quality seeds by small seed growers. A manually operated vegetable seed extraction machine was developed Ludhiana. Performance evaluation of machine was done on CH1 variety of chili. The machine can extract seeds at the rate of 1.57 to 2.23 kg/h of chili. Seed loss ranged from 3.03 to 4.92%.