Soybean, an environment-friendly grain legume and a major source of protein, oil and health, helps to promote the phytochemicals for human nutrition and livestock feed around the globe. The Soymilk is essentially a water extract of soybeans. The basic steps of preparation involves selection of soybeans, adding water, wet or hot grinding and separation of soymilk from fiber (okra), cooking to inactivate lipoxyygenase and trypsin inhibitors, formulation and fortification and packaging of the soymilk. The ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal and M/s Royal Plant Services, Delhi developed an automatic soymilk plant of 100 l/h capacity. The features of the Soymilk Plant includes feeding and grinding unit, storage tanks, boiler unit, cooker, separator, pneumatic tofu press and control panel, etc. The grinding system consists of top hopper, feeder control plate, bottom hopper and grinder.  The soy slurry coming from grinder is collected in storage tank and pumped...

The Nadia Krishi Vigyan Kendra had opened the path of success for the sustainable economic development in a co-operative approach by triggering the technology of high value protective cultivation with marketing support by the Farmer Producer Company.   From the Year - 2008 onwards, the Nadia KVK started their activity with the Nakashipara Farmer Producer Company Ltd. Primarily (the then farmer’s club), the KVK had uplifted 5 to 6 progressive farmers to focus and encourage the other farmers to adopt their technological and economical achievements. The KVK’s movement started in the fields of high value and protected crop cultivation along with other remunerative vegetables like Cole crops, chilli, brinjal, dolichos bean, fruits like banana and flowers like tuberose, marigold and chrysanthemum, etc. The technical interventions were also made towards quality seedling production, varietal replacement (G-9), quality bunch production by use of bunch cover and high density...

India accounts for 15% of the total world production of the fruit crops and ranks second with the production of 98 Mt in the Year - 2017-18. The Grading of fruits on the basis of size and shape is important as it adds the value to the product and gives better economic gains to the producer. At present, the fruits are graded manually which is labor intensive and time consuming and even the operation is affected due to non-availability of labors during the peak seasons. Besides, the manual grading has a wide variation in the sizes of the graded fruits. In view of the above considerations, the ICAR-Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal designed and developed a commercial scale multi-fruit grader suitable for grading the different types of spherical-shaped fruits. The fruit grader consists of a grading unit, horizontal belt conveyor and feeding unit.  The grader has provision to separate fruits into five grades by adjusting the flap spacing between 30 and 145 mm...

The non-availability of genuine planting material of improved varieties, especially in plantation crops is considered as a major bottleneck in improving productivity. Very often, private nurseries take advantage of such a situation and they sell spurious planting materials without any quality assurance through proper labeling.   Considering the importance and need to provide quality planting materials, especially, in the perennial horticultural crops, the Government of India is implementing the programme of accreditation of nurseries through the National Horticulture Mission. However, there is no mechanism for ensuring the genuineness and quality of planting materials supplied even from such accredited nurseries. Many farmers suffer huge financial losses due to the purchase of low quality planting material sold by the private nurseries. The importance of Quick Response (QR) Coded planting materials helps in overcoming such drawbacks. The QR Codes are one of the easiest...

The Karan Vandana (DBW 187) is the latest wheat variety released for irrigated timely sown conditions of North Eastern Plains Zones comprising of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam and West Bengal.   The variety had significant yield advantage over the existing cultivars, viz., HD 2967, K 0307, HD 2733, K 1006 and DBW 39 of the zone. It possesses better resistance against the important diseases of the region like leaf rust and leaf blight. The Karan Vandana variety flowers in 77 days and matures in 120 days after sowing. Its average height is 100 cm and has the potential of 64.70 q per ha. The variety has better Chapatti quality with 7.7/10 score and high iron content (43.1 ppm) in the grains. For popularizing and promoting the variety, ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal in collaboration with the Mahayogi Gorakhnath Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh organized the training programme on 16th November, 2018 for the wheat...