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Development and evaluation of a battery operated ginger (Zingiber officinale) washer for small and marginal farmers

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Title Development and evaluation of a battery operated ginger (Zingiber officinale) washer for small and marginal farmers
 
Creator Arun Kumar
Pramod Aradwad
PRANITA JAISWAL
SANTOSHA RATHOD
 
Subject Bruise index
Ginger
Microbial effciency
Washing
Washing effciency
 
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Ginger (Zingiber ofcinale Rosc.) is a commercial crop grown for its aromatic rhizomes which is used both as a spice and medicine. Being a root crop and owing to its physical structure, ginger rhizomes contain heavy soil load which makes washing as an important and prime post-harvest operation. Manual washing of ginger is a laborious and time consuming process. An experiment was conducted at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 2020 with an objective to develop a continuous rotary drum type battery operated ginger washer and to evaluate its performance.The machine consists of the frame, feeding and discharge chutes, rotary drum with internal ights, pressure pump and nozzle assembly, battery and a drive unit. The developed washer was evaluated at different feed rate and residence time to appraise the washing efciency, microbial washing efciency, bruise index and colour of washed ginger. Increase in feed rate signicantly reduced the washing and microbial efciencies but increased mechanical damage. Washing and microbial efciencies increased with increase in residence time.Signicant difference in the colour was found between washed and unwashed ginger.The best set of conditions under which the washer could be operated was 150 kg/h and 25 sec, at which the machine was found to have mechanical washing efciency of 92.48%, microbial washing efciency of 93.18% and 4.54% bruise index. Besides eliminating drudgery of washing operation, the developed washer was found to save time, water and operating cost as compared to manual washing.
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Date 2023-02-16T07:28:52Z
2023-02-16T07:28:52Z
2022-07-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier TV Kumar, Pramod P Aradwad, Pranita Jaiswal, Santosha Rathod, PK Sahoo, Indra Mani. Development and evaluation of a battery operated ginger (Zingiber officinale) washer for small and marginal farmers. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 92 (9): 1071–1075, (2022). https://doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v92i8.109840
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/76228
 
Language English
 
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Publisher researchgate