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Research Highlights

YEAR WISE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 2016-17

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 2015-16

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 2013-15

 

Centre wise:

Sl.No Centre Mandate crop/commodity
1. Akola Coarse cereals, pulses and fruits and vegetable crops
List of programmes/ projects
1. Continuous low cost turmeric washer

2. Power operated turmeric slices

3. Stripping machine for chick pea pod

4. Process technology for value added products of pumpkin

5. Green chickpea pod stripping machine

6. PKV mini dal mill (3 hp & 5 hp)

2. Almora Millets, cereals, oilseeds, hill fruits, vegetables and forest produce
List of programmes/ projects
1.Hand operated Winnower-cum-cleaner

2.Medium capacity millet dehuller (15 kg/h) for the dehusking of barnyard, proso, kodo, little and fox tail millets

3. Aligarh Horticultural crop, meat (buffalo) and meat   products
List of programmes/ projects
1.Development of processing technologies for foxtail millet incorporated meat products
4. Anakapalle Jaggery and khandsari
List of programmes/ projects
1.Steam boiling system for production of export quality jiggery

2.Process protocol for Jaggery cube

3.Jaggery with carotenes, beta carotene and vitamin C

4.Mechanized System for Preparing Paper Sweet (Pootharekulu) Films

5.Steam boiling system using bagasse for the preparation of good quality jaggery

6.Organic Jaggery cubes alternative to Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners

7.Semi-automatic jaggery making unit for the preparation of solid jaggery

8.Modified starch based edible films making machine

9.Process for making compressed jaggery cubes to use in beverages

10.Process for preparation of jaggery chocolates, jaggery cookies, jaggery cakes and jaggery coated saunf, dried amla and ginger

5. Bangalore Cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, spices, plantation crops, fruits and vegetables, medicinal and aromatic plants and milk
List of programmes/ projects
1.   Tamarind dehulling machine (Two pass multi-rings)

2.   Extruded products from small millets

3.   Probiotic Low-fat Dahi from Small Millets

4.   Fermented alcoholic & Non-alcoholic Beverages from Kokum/Tomato

5.   Jackfruit Ice cream and Jackfruit Peda

6.   Cowpea meduvada mix

7.   Ready-to-serve small millet one-dish meal

8.   Ready-to-Cook malted white ragi based dairy food

9.   Process protocol for processing of industrial fruit wastes viz., mango peel, mango seed /kernel and tomato pomace

10.    White Ragi-Malt based Designer Food

11.    Development of ready-to-serve small millet one-dish meal and its production line

12.  Microbial Processing of Fruit Waste for the product development of animal feed

13.  Ready-to-Cook White Ragi-Malt Based Dairy Food

14.  Improved tamarind dehuller (1 ton/h)

15.  Pongamia decorticator (250 kg/h)

16.  Foxtail millet based One-Dish-Meal instant mix

17.  Fermented beverages from banana pseudo-stem

18.  Sunflower oil dewaxing

6. Bapatla Turmeric, cashew nut, rice, chilli, mango, citrus
List of programmes/ projects
1.      Design of 2.5 ton capacity on-farm aeration bin for paddy

2.      Modified Multipurpose ANGRAU Polyhouse Solar dryer

3.      Microprocessor controlled On-farm aeration bin

7. Bhubaneswar Rice, fruits, vegetables, betel leaves, root crops, medicinal and aromatic plants
List of programmes/ projects
1.      Mahua Stamen removal machine

2.      Amaranthus popping unit

3.      Modified atmospheric packaging of jamun

4.      Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Jamun fruit

5.      Development of process technology for preparation and storage of beverages from watermelon

6.      Development of low cost retortable pouch technology for preservation of traditional Chhena poda  

8. Chennai Meat (beef, pork, mutton and chicken) and meat products
List of programmes/ projects
1.      Manual and Motorised Sausage Stuffer

2.      Utilisation of ruminal contents in formulation of Japanese quail feed

3.      Bio- Preservation of meat using beneficial bacterial cultures

4.      Japanese quail feed incorporating slaughterhouse by-products

5.      Effect of edible coating of hydrocolloids and cinnamon oil on meat

6.      Mobile flaying cradle for flaying of food animals

7.      Process for extraction of collagen from chicken skin

8.      Process for extraction of chondroitin sulphate from trachea and ear of beef carcasses

9.      Rapid diagnostic method to detect Salmonella spp and Staphylococcus aureus from meat and meat products

9. Coimbatore Cereals, pulses, millets, tropical fruits and vegetables, sugarcane
List of programmes/ projects
1.      Solar dryer for  cocoa bean with biomass backup heater

2.      Mango destoner cum pulper

3.      Online grading system for mango

4.      Ready To Eat mushroom curry in retortable pouches

5.      Automatic mango grader based on internal and external quality

6.      Development of ozone based storage structure for managing insects in grains

7.      Development of on-line grading system based on internal and external qualities of mango using machine vision technology

8.      Turmeric washer

9.      Mechanical turmeric dryer

10.     Technology for extraction of food enzyme from selected oil cakes

11.     Technology for the production of ready to eat milky mushroom curry

12.     Cocoa pod breaker and drying of cocoa

13.     Farm level ripening chamber for fruit ripening

14.     Fermented millet based probiotics