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Vol. 10, Issue 2 (2021)
Manual operated detacher for reducing drudgery of farm women
Author(s):
Mohini M Dange
Mohini M Dange
Abstract:
After harvesting Roselle from the plant, the calyses are separated/ detached manually, these Roselle calyses are then used for preparing different value added products e.g. sharbat, Jam, syrup, pickle, Roselle supari etc. the manual method is laborious and time consuming. With the increasing demand of calyces for preparing various value added products there was an urgent need was to develop a detacher for calyces separation/ detaching from Roselle fruit and hence Roselle calyces detacher (RCD) was developed. The developed detacher consist of cutting blade, cutting blade holder, spring and rivet arrangement. The Detacher is a manual hand operated tool with wt. of 125 g and overall dimensions of 225 mm x 105mm x 20 mm.
After harvesting Roselle from the plant, the calyses are separated/ detached manually, these Roselle calyses are then used for preparing different value added products e.g. sharbat, Jam, syrup, pickle, Roselle supari etc. the manual method is laborious and time consuming. With the increasing demand of calyces for preparing various value added products there was an urgent need was to develop a detacher for calyces separation/ detaching from Roselle fruit and hence Roselle calyces detacher (RCD) was developed. The developed detacher consist of cutting blade, cutting blade holder, spring and rivet arrangement. The Detacher is a manual hand operated tool with wt. of 125 g and overall dimensions of 225 mm x 105mm x 20 mm.
The average percentage of calyces and seed capsule were found to be 50.64 (±2.726) and 49.36 (±2.726). The manual calyces detaching efficiency was observed to be 68.9 ± 4.51 % and by Roselle Calyces detacher (RCD) was observed to be 96.8 ± 1.23%. According to the the ergonomical observations it was observed that detaching of Roselle calyces falls under LIGHT WORKLOAD. It is recommended to use Roselle calyces detacher (RCD) for detaching calyces from Roselle fruit as the capacity of RCD is 5.62± 0.918 kg/h.
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Mohini M Dange. Manual operated detacher for reducing drudgery of farm women. Pharma Innovation 2021;10(2):736-739.
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- ZDB-Number: 2663038-2
- IC Journal ID: 7725
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