09-10-2014, 04:02 PM
Abstracts: In the earlier days, the food grain when finished at the field was sun dried and then kept inside the air tight underground pit and was closed within the ground with air tight lid and kept in that form for few days and month. This was to reduce the moisture content of the food grain and retain that it in that form for few days which will increase the shelf life and disinfest. Now a day we are not doing so due to lack of time and patience. Now we finish the food grain at the field and send it to the whole sale market which instantly comes to the retail market and we buy back and consume ending up with lots of pulmonary disorders since the moisture content is more which is unsafe for human consumption. Therefore, heat/ thermal disinfestations of food grains can be a simple alternative. Vibro Thermal Disinfestor (VTD) is a simple electricity operated device for disinfestations of food grains.