Book Detail:
Language: English
Pages: 115
Author: TNAU
Price: Free
All TNAU Notes
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Course Outline: Protected cultivation and Post Harvest Technology (AENG-252)
- Green house
- Greenhouse structures of various types
- Plant response to greenhouse environments
- Equipment required for controlling green house environment
- Planning of green house facility
- Materials for construction of green houses
- Design criteria and constructional details of greenhouses
- Greenhouse heating and distribution systems
- Irrigation system used in greenhouses
- Threshing –threshers for different crops, parts, terminology, care and maintenance
- Winnowing – manual and power operated winnowers, care and maintenance
- Groundnut decorticator-hand operated and power operated decorticators, principles of working, care and maintenance
- Sheller – maize and castor Sheller
- Drying – grain drying, types of drying, types of dryers, importance of drying
- Storage- grain storage – types of storage structures
- Fruits and vegetables cleaning – machinery for cleaning fruits and vegetables, care and maintenance
- Grading – methods of grading, equipments for grading of fruits and vegetables, care and maintenance
- Size reduction – equipment for size reduction, care and maintenance
- Evaporation – principles, types of evaporators
- Food standards and regulations
