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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2020, Volume : 8, Issue : 5
First page : (561) Last page : (564)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8625

Development of Manually Operated Maize Sheller: A Concept

H.D. Nahate^1* , V.G. Kothalkar², R. R. Gayki², R. A. Ingle³, R. P. Jadhav⁵, A. T. Mahode⁶, P. P. Takalkar⁷ and S. A. Warge^8
1,2Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, C.A.E.T. Jalgaon (Ja.)
^3,4,5,6,7,8Final Year Student of the B. Tech (Agricultural Engineering), C.A.E.T. Jalgaon (Ja.)
*Corresponding Author E-mail: harishnahate@gmail.com
Received: 23.07.2020 | Revised: 12.09.2020 | Accepted: 20.09.2020 

 ABSTRACT

Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the important food grains in the country. Shelling is the important post-harvest activity in maize crop for enhancing the quantity and quality of seeds. In peak season there is unavailability of labour or threshing equipments. If the quantity to be harvest is limted then the thresher owner also avoid to harvest such a less quantity of cobs. The local maize cobs harvesting equipments are available but it have some constraints like improper design, lower shelling efficiency, more damage rate and also design is not ergonomically feasible. Also high wages of labour, drudgery for labour, unavailability of labour in peak period, timeliness of operation affects the harvesting of maize cobs. To overcome this issues we have the concept to develop manually operated maize sheller that will be reduced the drudgery of marginal farmers and many other pain points. Also the developed equipment will be ergonomically designed by taking into considerations the various anthropometric parameters of male and female workers. So the developed equipment will be properly designed and efficient. The performance of the maize sheller will be evaluated and will be compared with local or traditional shelling methods viz., hand shelling and tubular maize shelling. The effect of different performance parameters like output capacity, broken grain percentage, cleaning efficiency and threshing efficiency will be discussed. The cost of operation of manually operated maize sheller definitely will be less per quintal than any other traditional methods. So, the technology of manually operated maize sheller will be innovative approach for marginal farmers.

Keywords: Traditional maize shelling, Manually operated tubular maize sheller, Shelling efficiency, Collection efficiency, Shelling rate, Moisture content.

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Cite this article: Nahate, H. D., Kothalkar, V. G., Gayki, R. R., Ingle, R. A., Jadhav, R. P., Mahode, A. T., Takalkar, P. P., & Warge, S. A. (2020). Development of Manually Operated Maize Sheller : A Concept, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 8(5), 561-564. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8625