Field visit to Krishna Prasad

cashews
Presented by
Shivayogi C Pujar
Introduction
• Number of bags processed in a day: 120
• Origin of RCN: Benin
• Quantity of grading output: 2000kg
• Number of workers in grading: 45
• Wages per labor per day: 350Rs
Total number of grades in Wholes
• W150
• W180
• A180
• W210
• A210
• M210
• W240
• A240
• M240
• W320
• A320
• M320
• W300
• A300
• W400
• A400
• SW240
• DW
• DW1
• KW
• KW1
• KW2
• FW
• FW1
• FW2
• DW
• DW1
• RW
• RW1
• BW
• OW
• OW1
Grading process
• The Peeling output is fed into the color sorter
• Only the white cashews are fed into the Hamsa machine
• From the Hamsa machine the major size grades were obtained and
these are given to the manual graders
• These people further grade them to the other grades listed in the
previous slide
Advantages of nanosorters
• Saves grading time
• Saves labors
• Low cost of maintenance
• Helps to avoid loss due to scarcity of labors
learnings
• Manual grading
• Importance of nanosorters
• Number of manual graders required
• Total number of grades in wholes