Nutmeg Decorticator

Over the last decades, nutmeg processing industries facing problem of decorticating nutmegs to produce kernels for further processing. Keeping this in mind the research was undertaken at PHT scheme, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore-221 005. This book entitled Nutmeg Decorticator - Development, Optimization and Processing techniques is providing new way of processing nutmegs. The book is divided in to six chapter viz., Introduction, Review of literature, Material and methods, Experimental results, Discussion, Summary and References. At the end, cost analysis is incorporated which contain decorticator manufacturing cost and operational cost. The book contains review of all aspect of nutmeg processing, performance of various decorticators, physical properties of various biological materials. The finding of developed decorticator has been incorporated in the book and it contain latest, reliable and usable information about nutmeg decortication and processing to the entrepreneur.

Autorentext

Prashant Said, is a Research scholar at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He obtained M. Tech (Agril. Engg) specialization in Post Harvest Process and Food Engineering from UAS, Bangalore, in 2011 and B. Tech (Agril. Engg.) from MAU, Parbhani, in 2009. He has also qualified ICAR-NET examination in 2012 and NAARM-SRF in 2011.