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Machineries for mango

Harvesting tools, machineries for pickle making, machineries and hot water treatment plant for mango

 

 

 

India is the largest producer of mango and about 23 lakh hectare of land is under cultivation of mango. The mango harvester for mango and tractor operated hydraulic platform have been developed for harvesting mangoes from tall trees. The mango harvester harvests mango with 1-2 cm long pedicle, it needs less force to harvest the fruit and shelf life of the fruit is increased by 3-4 days. About 100 kg of mango fruits can be harvested in one hour. Mangoes are stored for 8- 10 days in pulp making industry for ripening. There is post harvest loss by fruit fly and anthracnose infestation. The mango pulp industry have established in a big way. About 1.5 lakh tonnes of pulp with a value of Rs. 621 crore is being exported per year. About 63 thousand tonne mango worth Rs. 210 crore is being exported from India. The fruits treated with hot water have lesser post harvest loss. The hot water treatment plant is for mango export and pulp industry. The treatment can be given to reduce storage losses due to anthracnose and fruit fly. This also reduces the time for ripening the fruits for pulp industry hence the fruit inventory is reduced to almost half.

 

 
        Pruning operation
 

ICAR-IIHR TOOLS AND MACHINERY FOR MANGO

 

Root media sieving and Bag filling machine: manual

•     Manually operated, it can be motorized

•     To sieve and clean rooting media

•     To fill the polythene bags for fruit nursery

•     Operators : 2 Nos

•     Capacity : 200 – 250 bags per hour

 

Root media sieving and Bag filling machine: Motorized machine

•      To sieve, mix and fill rooting media

•      To fill the polythene bags for fruit nursery

•      Operators : 3 Nos

•      Capacity :  Around 700 bags per hour

Manual – harvester

•      Manually operated

•      It has cutting blade and collecting net

•      To harvest mangoes with 1-2 cm pedicel

•      Increases shelf life of mangoes

•      Capacity : 100 -150 kg/h

Tractor operated hydraulic platform – pruning

This tractor operated hydraulic platform is having a variable height of upto 6m. The fruits can be easily harvested from a height of 9-10m. The platform can also be used for pruning and spraying of the orchards.

•      To rejuvenate senile orchard through pruning

•      Tractor hydraulic operated

•       Helps operator to reach 20 feet

•       Engine operated pruners are used for pruning

•       Capacity : 1 - 2 trees / hour

 

Tractor operated hydraulic platform - Spraying

•       To do spraying operation in orchard

•      Tractor operated sprayer fitted with spray tank in trailer

•      Helps operator to reach 20 feet

•      Capacity : Approx. 5 min / tree

 

Dipping tool for spongy tissue

•    Arka Saka Nivirak of 125 ml / litre of water

•    40-60 % maturity stage of fruits at 10 days intervals

•    15 seconds to treat one or two mangoes

•    Cost of IIHR Mango Fruit Dipping Tool is Rs.3000

•    Cost of operation : Rs.0.50 – 0.60 per fruit dipping

•    Rs. 1.25 per fruit in spraying

 

TRACTOR HYDRUALIC OPERATED PLATFORM FOR HARVESTING

•      Operators can harvest mango by hand plucking, using mango harvester branch shaking using collecting net

•       Helps operator to reach upto 20 feet

•       Platform can be stopped at desired height

•       Capacity : 500 – 750 kg/ h

 

MANGO SIZE GRADER

•        Grades mangoes into 4 sizes

•       Pipes with divergent gap used to do size grading

•       Dumped mangoes roll on the pipes gravitationally to slope

•       Capacity : 1 tonne/h

 

 

MANGO SLICER

•        Cuts slices into 4 to 8 slices depending on mango size.

•       Capacity – 1 tonne/hour

•       Operators reqd. – 2 Nos.

•       3 man-hrs required to slice & transport 1T mango on slicer

•       16  man-hours required to cut one tonne mango manually

RAW MANGO PEELER

•       Capacity – 200 kg/hour   

•      Cost benefit ratio 1:5

•      Suitable for chutney and pickle industry

 

Hot water treatment plant for mango

•      Hot water tub with electric heaters to treat in crates

•      Control of Fruit fly– 46°C for 65 minutes duration

•      Control of Anthracnose – 52°C for 10 minutes duration

•      Capacity - 1 tonne/hour for control of anthracnose

•      200 kg/hour for control of fruit fly

 

 

Hot water treatment plant

INTEGRATION OF SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEM

 

•   Evacuated tube type solar hot water system of 1000 l has been integrated with mango hot water treatment plant to save electrical energy 30 -45 % depending on the temperature.