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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, a premier institution of agricultural education and research in the country, began as a small agricultural research farm in 1899 on 30 acres of land donated by Her Excellency Maharani Kempa Nanjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhiyavaru, the Regent of Mysore and appointed Dr. Lehmann, German Scientist to initiate research on soil crop response with a Laboratory in the Directorate of Agriculture. Later under the initiative of the Dewan of Mysore Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Mysore Agriculture Residential School was established in 1913 at Hebbal which offered Licentiate in Agriculture and later offered a diploma programme in agriculture during 1920. The School was upgraded to Agriculture Collegein 1946 which offered four year degree programs in Agriculture. The Government of Mysore headed by Sri. S. Nijalingappa, the then Chief Minister, established the University of Agricultural Sciences on the pattern of Land Grant College system of USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences Act No. 22 was passed in Legislative Assembly in 1963. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the Vice President of India inaugurated the University on 21st August 1964.

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Subject: Agricultural Engineering × Author: DESHITHA, K. × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT DRYING METHODS FOR DE-SKINNED FIELD BEANS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, 2018-08-23) DESHITHA, K.; Venkatachalapathy, K.
    The study has been conducted in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore during the year 2017-2018. Dolichos lablab is an ancient legume crop which is commonly called as Field bean. It is traditionally grown as a pulse crop or vegetables for human consumption or animal feed in South East Asia and African countries. Both whole bean and de-skinned bean can be used as a vegetable. In South India the de-skinned bean is having more demand in kitchens and to available in off season, the de-skinned field beans were dried, stored and used. Different drying methods like sun, solar cabinet, hot air tray and vacuum tray drying were used to study. Solar drying methods took lesser time than sun drying method which was about 7.5 hours and 8.5 hours respectively. Hot air tray drying at 50 and 55˚C took only 3 hours and at 45˚C took 3.5 hours. Vacuum drying was done at the temperature of 35, 40 and 45˚C took 6, 4.5 and 4 hours respectively. The physical properties and nutritional composition of whole beans, de-skinned and dried de-skinned field beans were analyzed and proved that there were no significant differences were found in case of nutritional compositions except crude protein. The storage study was conducted in an ambient room temperature for 2 months in LDPE and PP packages and there were no significant differences were found in case of nutritional compositions, but moisture content was slightly increased in case of PP packages. Finally, it was found that solar drying method was inexpensive and the quality was better than sun and hot air drying methods.