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    1. The document outlines the key activities involved in cashew production from pre-harvest maintenance to post-harvest quality evaluation. 2. Pre-harvest activities include weeding, constructing fire belts, and nut collection from farms every 2-3 days to prevent decay. 3. Post-harvest activities include nut separation, cleaning, drying, sorting, packaging, storage, and quality evaluation to maintain quality and remove contaminated or bad nuts. 4. Most activities are done manually using low-cost methods appropriate for small farms.

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    1. The document outlines the key activities involved in cashew production from pre-harvest maintenance to post-harvest quality evaluation. 2. Pre-harvest activities include weeding, constructing fire belts, and nut collection from farms every 2-3 days to prevent decay. 3. Post-harvest activities include nut separation, cleaning, drying, sorting, packaging, storage, and quality evaluation to maintain quality and remove contaminated or bad nuts. 4. Most activities are done manually using low-cost methods appropriate for small farms.

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    1. The document outlines the key activities involved in cashew production from pre-harvest maintenance to post-harvest quality evaluation. 2. Pre-harvest activities include weeding, constructing fire belts, and nut collection from farms every 2-3 days to prevent decay. 3. Post-harvest activities include nut separation, cleaning, drying, sorting, packaging, storage, and quality evaluation to maintain quality and remove contaminated or bad nuts. 4. Most activities are done manually using low-cost methods appropriate for small farms.

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    Action Mandatory Optional

    What to do? Why to do? How to do? When How much Which
    to do? the cost? Benefits?

    Pre-harvest Weeding To keep the farm clean and for Manual weeding or spraying of
    Maintenance of Farm easy picking of the fruits. herbicides.

    Construction of fire belts. To prevent fire outbreak. Keep a 10meter distance from farm.

    Nut Collection from Pick the nuts regularly about 2- To avoid decay and wastage. Manual picking.
    Farm 3days

    Nut Separation from Detach the apple from the To prevent nut contamination Use of a manual string to detach the
    Apple nuts. from apple residue. apple from the nuts.

    Nut Cleaning Remove foreign materials Depends on how much nuts. Manually picking residue from nuts.

    Nut Drying Spreading the nuts on clean To prevent decomposition. Dry on cement or trampoline and
    surface for 3-4days. look out for the rattling sound

    Nut Sorting Manual selection. To grade the nuts and to remove Manually.
    the bad ones from good ones.

    Packaging and Storage To bag the dry cashew nuts To maintain the quality of the Manually packing and storing nuts
    into jute bags and store. nuts. into jute bags and placed on pallets
    in a well ventilated storage facility.

    Quality Evaluation To evaluate the quality of the To determine the KOR and the Manually break dry nut to observe
    nuts. nut quality. kernel quality in order to separate
    the bad nuts from the good.

    GROUP ONE (1) PRESENTATION ON CASHEW PRODUCTION HARVEST AND POST-HARVEST ACTIVITIES

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