DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF GROUNDNUT PODSEPARATOR

In India, Agriculture is the backbone. In a country like India, farmers grow groundnuts on a small scale. The major problem in groundnut production in countries like India is the lack of groundnut processing machines available to farmers. In the beginning, the workers separated the groundnut pods from their plants. They simply remove groundnut pods by their hands and separate them from the plants. The output obtained from this method, was very low because it was a very time-consuming process. It was also a boring work for the worker. The traditional method of separating pods from groundnut plants is by hand. The traditional method is not a sufficient method for separating the groundnut pods. Due to this manual process, identifying some major problems&overcomingthese problems some ideas or concepts are generated.