Abstract
Pea is one of the important cool season crops grown in Jharkhand. The depoding of pea pods is essential for consumption, further processing and value addition of peas. A small scale manually operated green pea depoder machine was developed to depod the green pea pods. This machine works on the principle of friction generated due to rubbing action of hammer pads with pea pods against the inner surface of sieve frame and impact action of pads. The machine was tested for its performance evaluation by the varying the gap between tapered sieve and hammer pad. Testing of machine was carried out at two different settings. The best result was obtained at second setting. The moisture content of fresh pea pods used for the depodding was 82% (w. b). Based on performance evaluation analysis, the depodding efficiency and damaged seeds percentage of the machine were found to be 96.75% and 2.17% respectively. The average throughput capacity of the machine was found to be 15.47 kg/h. This machine could help pea growers to increase their income.
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