Year: 2019 | Month: June | Volume 6 | Issue 1
Instrumental Grading Systems of Natural Fibres for Harnessing Farmers Income
Deb Prasad Ray*
Manik Bhowmik
Biplab Saha
Gunasindhu Sardar
Jayanta Mondal
Amitabha Sarkar and Gautam Ray
DOI:10.30954/2347-9655.01.2019.7
Abstract:
Grading of natural fibre is an essential parameter for judging the quality over the non-descriptive one. Quality of natural fibres is generally determined qualitatively without involving the numerical and it is the sole scientific consciousness of the grader to classify a particular fibre of certain quality. In most of the cases it is found the grades evolved through the hand and eye method is erroneous and there are considerable gaps between the qualities judged with the actual quality. In India, the natural fibre cultivators are still unorganized and lacking of scientific knowledge of quality of their produce. Due to the fact the farmers are often deprived economically of their cost produce. This causes serious concern for which the farmers get demotivated and disinterested in the production of natural fibres. There are basic manual instruments are available which needs longer time and efficiency for determination of fibre quality. ICAR-National Institute of Natural Fibre Engineering and Technology has worked in this dimension and researched out some new age digitized instruments for determination of fibre strength, fineness and colour which are essentially integral component for determination of fibre quality. These instruments are user friendly, easy to operate, microcontroller based and requires very less time to determine the fibre quality. The ICAR-Consortium Projects on Natural fibres paved the platform for developments of these instruments and the instruments are becoming popular day by day to the people working in the field of natural fibres.
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