Open AccessTesting of developed Aonla pricking machine
Author(s) -
Vijay Singh,
Manmohan Singh
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of agricultural sciences/international journal of agricultural sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5670
pISSN - 0973-130X
DOI - 10.15740/has/ijas/18.1/114-117
Subject(s) - uttar pradesh , orchard , non invasive ventilation , forensic science , hectare , horticulture , mathematics , biology , veterinary medicine , agriculture , medicine , ecology , socioeconomics , sociology
Aonla has hollowed position in Ayurveda. In India Uttar Pradesh has the highest area under cultivation and production of Aonla. Area under Aonla orchard in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh is about 13000 hectares. Aonla is mostly used in making Murabba, pickles and candy etc. Traditional method for making Aonla murabba is hygienic because for making Murabba. Aonla is used in India in form of Murabba, candy, pickles etc. Aonla pricking machine was developed in SHUATS, Prayagraj (formally Allahabad), (UP). This machine was developed for minimizing or approximately zero for pricking drudgery and increasing efficiency for pricking Aonla. Formally manually pricking machine for Aonla has causes human drudgery in hand so for root out this problem machine was developed in paddle operated form. For testing this machine 50kg of Aonla is pricked. Parameters of pricking was depth of pricking, percentage of total pricked Aonla, Efficiency of no. pricking of Aonla in 300 second. This machine was used stainless steel metal for preventing rusting with Aonla and all that parts which are comes in touch with Aonla fruit that are fabricated with stainless steel metal as we know that Aonla fruit is used for Eating purpose in form of pickles, murabba, etc so all the process like harvesting, processing, and packing has to be hygienic. The vitamin C content in Aonla varies from 200-900mg/100g depending upon the variety and size of fruit.