Experimental Investigation of Paddy Grain Drying Mechanism

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to solve the problems that occur during reaping of rice grains from paddy fields and it involves high labor cost. The traditional way of drying grains takes a time of 40–50 h when the grains kept on the paddy field but with grain drying mechanism lot of time can be saved. For the drying process, the semi-dried grains having 22–25% of moisture content are taken off from the paddy fields for the drying to happen manually for 40 h in sunlight. But this process has some drawbacks which can make the grains wet again by untimely rains, causes fungal infections, pest, and it increases the labor costs. To avoid the problems of drying associated with mechanical dryers, a drying mechanism is proposed where we can bring down the level of moisture to a safe level of 5–6% from 25% moisture content in the semi-dried grains.