Performance Evaluation of Portable Modified Atmospheric Packaging Unit for Grain Dis-infestations
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
The current study was made to evaluate the performance of Portable Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP)n unit, for storage of bengal gram and sorghum. Flushing pressure and time of gas mixture was optimized, by fixing the responses R1 (CO2>60%) and R2 (O2<3%), in the range. The desirability was higher at 5 kg/cm2 pressure, for 10 second for bengal gram (97.8%) and 2 kg/cm2 pressure for 20 second, for sorghum (99.2%). Grain or seed quality parameters like insect damage percentage, germination percentage and vigour index, were studied. It was found that, percentage of insect damage increased during storage and there were no evidence of insects in any of the selected grains, till five months of storage. It was observed that, seed germination was highest for bengal gram, stored in PET packets, which is 100 per cent at initial stage and decreased to 97.5 percent, at the end of nine month of storage.
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Amaresh . , Ambrish Ganachari, Dayanand Kumbar, Keshava lu, Bipin G
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