It is a common medicinal plant in India. If these medicinial fruits are decorticated (outer cover is separated from the seed), they fetch better price in the market. The existing practice of manually decorticating Hirda is full of drudgery.
Salient features of Hirda decortication machine:
Changing gap size is easily possible by rotating only one wheel.
The machine can decorticate different sizes of Hirda at different settings.
All moving oarts of the machine are covered for the safety of the operator.
Decortication rate: 100 kg/hour
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
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