Design and Fabrication of Root Vegetable Washer

Abstract

Abstract: Washing is the primary and an essential operation in the production and distribution of fresh root vegetables. Root vegetables like carrot, radish, ginger etc. needs to be pre-cleaned before transporting from field to market. At present there is no primary and an economical processing unit for small scale farmers. A stainless steel, portable pedal operated vegetable washer was developed. After harvesting the Root vegetables like potato, carrots, radish, etc. have to be cleaned off the soil, remove the clay particles and other microbial contaminants for a healthy and acceptable produce for the consumers. Normally the Farmers in India use the Traditional methods to clean the root vegetables which are found to be less effective in cleaning process and also it is a time consuming process which involves additional labour. Hence to avoid these problems our project could the best possible solution in order to solve the problem of small scale farmers