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Performance evaluation of vegetable washer for carrot crop

The vegetable crop especially root crop must be washed before the transportation from field to market. For a small scale farmer, it is a labour consuming process. A vegetable washing machine was evaluated for carrot crop. The performance parameters of machine such as mechanical washing efficiency, microbial efficiency and bruising percentage were determined. The speed of the rotor drum was 25 rpm. | Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci 2018 7 1 454-458 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 01 2018 Journal homepage http www.ijcmas.com Original Research Article https doi.org 10.20546 ijcmas.2018.701.053 Performance Evaluation of Vegetable Washer for Carrot Crop 1 2 2 2 Narender1 S. Mukesh2 Vijaya Rani2 Anil Kumar2 Kanishk Verma3 and Nitin Karwasra3 1 Department of FMPE College of Agricultural engineering JNKVV Jabalpur MP-482004 India 2Department of FMPE College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology CCS HAU Hissar HR-125004 India 3Department of FMPE College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology PAU Ludhiana-141004 Punjab India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Mechanical washing efficiency Microbial efficiency and bruising percentage Carrot Article Info Accepted 06 December 2017 Available Online 10 January 2018 The vegetable crop especially root crop must be washed before the transportation from field to market. For a small scale farmer it is a labour consuming process. A vegetable washing machine was evaluated for carrot crop. The performance parameters of machine such as mechanical washing efficiency microbial efficiency and bruising percentage were determined. The speed of the rotor drum was 25 rpm. The performance results showed that the mechanical washing efficiency microbial efficiency and bruising percentage were varied from 72.80 to 78 88 to 92 and 5.80 to 8.50 respectively. The fuel consumption was found to be 1.8 to 2.2 l h-1. Introduction India is the second largest producer of vegetable in world. Total production of vegetable in India is 169064 thousand metric tonnes in an area of 10106 thousand hectares during the year 2015-16. Fresh vegetables are important component of the human diet. In vegetable crops the production of carrot was 1338 thousand metric tonnes in an area of 82 thousand hectare. The percentage share of Haryana state in production of carrot crop .