Vol: 2 Issue: 2

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GROUNDNUT PEELING MACHINE

David Olusola Fakorede, Simon Ogbeche Odey, Omini Okon Jimmy

Agriculture has been the back bone of the economy of some countries in the world. Many of the farmers work day and night for growing crops [21]. In regards to the changes in climate conditions, farmers cultivate diversity of crops, which groundnuts is included. (The scientific name of groundnuts is (Arachishypogaea). It appears inclusively in the plan tree of fabaceae. The condition more favourable in growing this crop is dry climate. The major parts of the groundnut include: shell, cotyledon, coat, radical and plumage, seed. It has much importance such as food (peanut butter, peanut flour, boiled nuts, (peanut oil etc). Groundnut has been a major source of economic empowerment for a lot of farmers and countries, this chapter discusses the relevance of groundnut and work done by different researchers. According to [14], groundnut is the sixth and most important oilseed crop in the world. It contains almost 50% of oil and 28% of protein, 10.2% of sugar, 500-600 calorific worth and 40.5% fat, and it is an extensive source of dietary fibre, minerals and vitamins. It grows more on soils that are well depleted, textured and well supplied with calcium, potassium and phosphorous. Over 100 countries and more grow groundnut. According to [17], groundnut is of the ultimate important to the oilseed crop worldwide. There consist of so many groundnut propagating countries in the world but only few are major producers like, China, Nigeria, India Sudan, Burma, Senegal and the United States of America with a world average yield of 1.4 metric tonnes per hectare.

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