PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HAND OPERATED MAIZE SHELLER

G. RAJENDER¹*, T. ANUBABU², CH. KRISHNA³, MD. MAJEED ALI⁴, CH. THIRUPATHI⁵, V. VINOD^6
1Department of Agricultural Process & Food Engineering, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
²College of Agricultural Engineering, Sangareddy, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
³College of Agricultural Engineering, Sangareddy, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
⁴College of Agricultural Engineering, Sangareddy, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
⁵College of Agricultural Engineering, Sangareddy, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
⁶College of Agricultural Engineering, Sangareddy, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana
* Corresponding Author : raju1231123@gmail.com

Received : 18-01-2018     Accepted : 05-04-2018     Published : 15-04-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 7       Pages : 5676 - 5678
Int J Agr Sci 10.7 (2018):5676-5678

Keywords : Hand operated maize sheller, Machine capacity, Shelling efficiency, maize thresher
Academic Editor : Sagwal Pardeep Kumar, Kumar Jitendra, Vinodakumar S.N., Mahendra Mishra, Basu S., Prakash Jyoti, Dr R L Raut
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University Rajendranagar Mandal, Hyderabad, 500030 Telangana. Author also thankful to Dr K. Sada Siva Rao, College of Agricultural Engineering Sangareddy and Dr. G. Aravind Reddy, the Head of the Department of Farm Machinery and Implementation, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University for providing all necessary facilities to complete this research work
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

The most important aspect of post-harvest operation of maize is maize shelling or simply maize threshing. For a long time now, shelling maize to remove the grain from the cob has been a time consuming, tedious and a mind cracking process especially to the many small scale farmers in the country that basically practice subsistence maize farming. Small scale equipments like hand operated maize shellers were developed and economically feasible for small farmers. The aim of this investigation is to performance evaluation of hand operated maize sheller which was fabricated by FIM scheme, Rajendranagar. The machine was tested on three local varieties of maize DHM117; DHM115 and 900M Gold procured from different parts of Telangana (Rangareddy, Medak, Khammam) with moisture content level below 12% (w.b.). The shelling capacity of hand operated maize sheller on maize varieties DHM 117; DHM 115 and 900M Gold was found as 39.75kg/h; 39.89kg/h and 40.22kg/h with an average shelling efficiency of 97.49%; 98.134 and 98.394% respectively. The shelling efficiency and shelling capacity is not varying with variety of maize.

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