Effect of crop and machine parameters on threshing effectiveness and seed quality of basmati rice
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2004-07
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
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Basmati rice is becoming popular all over world. Indian Basmati rice fetches three times higher price than other countries. Recently it was reported that threshing reduces the quality of Basmati rice. Experiment was conducted to study the threshing effectiveness on Basmati paddy. The experiment was conducted on an axial flow multicrop thresher with three varieties of Basmati and one coarse varieties of paddy, with four levels of cylinder speed, three level of moisture content and three level of feed rate. The threshing efficiency was found 100%. Result showed that grain damage and cleaning efficiency increased with the increase in cylinder speed. Maximum grain damage was 0.9% in Pusa Basmati-1 and Basmati-1121 respectively at cylinder speed of 18.21 m/s, moisture content 25.1 per cent and feed rate 960 kg/h. Grain damage of Taraori Basmati, Pusa Basmati-1 and Basmati-1121 is higher than Pant Dhan-12 by 7.3, 19.5 and 24.4 per cent respectively. The cleaning efficiency varied from 91.7 to 99.1% for all the varieties at all cylinder speed, feed rate and moisture content. The maximum cleaning efficiency was observed to be 99.1 percent for Basmati-1121 and minimum 91.7% in case of Pant Dhan-12. Germination percentage was above 80% in all the variety except Pusa Basmati-1. The effect of cylinder speed, moisture content and feed rate were analysed statistically on grain damage, cleaning efficiency and germination percentage. Result showed that effect of these parameters have significant effect. Overall working of thresher was found satisfactory for the selected variety and parameters under study.
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