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East Champaran, 17th May (H.I.S.). In view of the continuously increasing maize cultivation in the district, Parsauni Krishi Vigyan Kendra has demonstrated a manual table sheller for the convenience of the farmers. Giving this information, Dr. Anshu Gangwar, an agricultural engineering expert of Parsauni, said that the maize crop gets spoiled after harvesting. To facilitate quick shelling of maize, mechanical shelling is necessary to reduce the occurrence.
He told that the process of extracting maize from the cob obtained after production is called shelling. Generally, most of the work of husking of corn by marginal farmers is done by hand, in which a variety of processes are adopted by the farmers like beating the peeled corn with sticks, using fingers or sickle to peel the individual corn, etc. . This traditional threshing takes time and there is a problem of laborers and their wages, due to which the cost of maize cultivation increases. There is a need for effective, environment-friendly solutions to this. To solve this, low cost and portable Octagonal Hand Maze Sheller was demonstrated among 18 farmers in village Sareya Khurd of Harsiddhi block through front line demonstration among the farmers.
It is used to separate corn kernels from de-husked cobs. Dr. Gangwar said that it had four mild steel wings, which were thin along their length and one edge of the wing was thin. To form the maize sheller into an octagonal shape, each wing is folded in two places. The folded fins also prevent injury during shelling. This corn sheller is typically made of sheet metal. During operation the de-husked corn sheller is held in the right hand and the octagonal manual corn sheller is held in the left hand.
Shelled corn cobs are inserted into an octagonal manual corn sheller and given clockwise and counterclockwise motion, which separates the kernels from the cob. After removing the kernels from one side of the cob, the other side is fed into the sheller to completely remove the kernels from the cob. This table sheller does not require electricity to operate. This prevents the maize grains from getting damaged while peeling. Farmers can easily take it anywhere.