Vol. 4 (2) : March-April 2013 issue
Green Farming Vol. 4 (2) : 217-220 (March-April, 2013)
Comparative study on different methods of threshing finger millet earheads
K.N. HANUMANTHARAJU1*, S.A. VENU2, R. LAKSHMI3, H.N. RAMYA4 and M.S. SRIDEVI5
Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore - 560 065 (Karnataka)
Designation : 1,5Asstt. Professor *(raju404043@gmail.com), 2Ph.D. Scholar, 3,4M.Tech Scholar
Subject : Agronomy and Crop Production
Paper No. : P-0628
Total Pages : 4
Received : 06 December 2012
Revised accepted : 07 March 2013
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Citation :
K.N. HANUMANTHARAJU, S.A. VENU, R. LAKSHMI, H.N. RAMYA and M.S. SRIDEVI. 2013. Comparative study on different methods of threshing finger millet earheads. Green Farming Vol. 4 (2) : 217-220 ; March-April, 2013
ABSTRACT
The local practices, like manual hand beating, adoption of power operated thresher for threshing finger millet earheads was found to be favorable to achieve higher output capacity (230.00 kg/h) with the safer limits of broken grains (2.90 per cent) and higher threshing efficiency (99.18 per cent). On the other hand passing bare tractor and stone roller with bullock for threshing finger millet earheads was found to be better in terms of damage to grain and viability of the grain. On an average the research study suggests that use of power operated thresher is favourable to thresh the finger millet earheads as compare to other methods under Indian conditions.
Key words :
Breakage, Finger millet, Power operated thresher, Threshing efficiency.
