Solar drying pineapples

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08:00:00

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2016

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Access Agriculture
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Being a highly nutritious crop with high demand but of low shelf life, pineapples can be improved by drying and packing them. As dried pineapples are kept upto one year, a solar drier warms up air to remove more moisture from pineapples and a box solar drier allows air to circulate over drying pineapples. Harvest pineapples when 3/4 of fruit turns orange yellow and place them in crates to keep them clean.

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First, keep pineapples in shade,sort them, weigh them and wash them with brush and rinse them and leave them for drying. Healthy people with short nails and clean hands should work with fruits by peeling pineapples and remove all eyes and cut it into desired shapes in slices of 1/2 cm thickness.
Similarly, lay slices on trays without ove lapping for evenly drying and place trays in the drier and close it tightly to keep heat in and insects and dust out. Pineapples dry in 2 days and removed and cooled before packing.
Pack in a large air tight container and finally sort, weigh and pack pineapples based on required weight in market.
Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0001:47Dried pineapple can be kept upto one year.
01:4802:00A solar drier warms up air to remove more maoisture from pineapples.
02:0102:33A box solar drier allows air to circulate over drying pineapples.
02:3402:40Harvest pineapple when they turn orange-yellow.
02:4103:08Place harvest in crates.
03:0903:27Keep fruits under shade and sort them.
03:2803:45Weigh fresh pineapples, wash them with brush, rinse them and leave them.
03:4603:58Healthy people with short nails and clean hands should work with fruit.
03:5904:08Peel pineapples and remove all eyes and cut it into desired shapes.
04:0904:23The slice should be 1/2 cm thick.
04:2404:37Lay slices on tray without over lapping for evenly drying.
04:3804:55Place trays in the drier and close it tightly.
04:5605:09Pineapples dry in 2 days and removed and cooled before packing.
05:1005:29Pack in a large air tight container.
05:3006:00Sort, weigh and pack them based on required weight in market.
06:0108:00Summary

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