Machinery and Equipment for Food Processing

The present edition is completely, a revised and updated version of Machinery and Equipment for Food Processing emphasizes on the equipment involved in processing on the farm or the farm-related enterprise. The text represents the greater application of the agricultural equipment to reduce the quality and quantity loss occurred while harvesting, handling, storage, and marketing of plant and animal products. The author recognizes the value of agricultural produce that went lost while processing, harvesting, and marketing as an aid to the farms workers, industrialists, and mechanized agricultural workers. The recent edition proves the agricultural equipment as an active field, supported by all those associated with agriculture and allied field. Salient features The book represents the greater application of the agricultural equipment to reduce the quality and quantity loss occurred while the processing of plant and animal products The book is intended to serve wide readers including farmers, food processing scholar's farms workers, industrialists, and mechanized agricultural workers researchers, and academician. The recent edition provides great focus on the updated information till the date of publication. The content is provided with numerous tables, flow charts, line diagrams and colored photographs or illustrations to enhance the learning of complex mechanisms. Written in lucid and easy-to-grasp language highlighting the important aspect of Machinery and Equipment for Food Processing. Brevity, conciseness, readable format and easy accessibility of key information will facilitate readers learning and memorization. Fully revised, new edition includes the questions at the end of the chapter for the self-evaluation of the important concepts. There are numerous references at the end of most of the chapters suggesting sources of more detailed information. This recent book attempts to endeavors the field of processing equipment for agricultural products in an authoritative and concise manner.