A Need for Sesame Thresher

"Sesame Sesamum indicum L. crop is grown in all seasons of the year and being a short duration crop, fits well into various cropping systems. The international market of sesame is on the rise due to high demand and various uses. It was reported that there is about 5 to 10 percent loss from the time of harvest to cleaning and storing. The losses notice dare mainly contributed to non uniform maturity and improper threshing operation Status paper on oil seeds, 2014 . One of the measures to avoid post harvest losses is timely harvesting with proper method and adoption of modern mechanical methods of threshing and winnowing. Er. B. Kailashkumar ""A Need for Sesame Thresher"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd22862.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/agricultural-engineering/22862/a-need-for-sesame-thresher/er-b-kailashkumar"