1Department of Mechanical Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Mangalpalli, Ibrahimptnam, Hyderabad-501 510, Telangana, India
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tadepalligudem-534 101, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Corresponding Author: Yasin Pathan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Mangalpalli, Ibrahimptnam, Hyderabad-501 510, Telangana, India, Email: p.yasin339@gmail.com
Online published on 1 July, 2025.
No study has been conducted on how to utilize or minimize the agro-waste produced from the jute seed crop of dryland farming in the areas of Bapatla, Palnadu and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh state until now. This agro-waste is essentially a wasted natural fibre resource. This fibrous plant’s processing waste is huge in terms of quantity. It is a mix of broken hurd, cut pieces of fibre and crushed seedpods of a post-vegetative jute plant. It will be a great advantage to the farmer community if fibre is managed to be separated prior to seed extraction. This is only possible if the fibre source (the main stem) and the seed source (the branches) are separated. Based on this, the current study aimed to: (i) extract and test fibre for quality and (ii) develop a novel method and an ergonomic machine tofacilitate feasible fibre extraction without damaging seedpods.
In the present study, fibre has been extracted in small qualities from post-vegetative phase jute plants and tested according to Bureau of Indian standards (IS 7032 (1986) and IS 271 (2003)) to assess the fibre quality. Engineering design approach has been followed to develop the novel machine for the separation of the source of the fibre and source of seeds.
Results showed that usable fibres for the textile industrycould be extracted from post-vegetative jute plants and that the separation of the sources of fibre and seed could be facilitated with the use of developed machinery and methodology.
Jute fibre, Jute seeds, Post-vegetative phase, Source of fibre, Source of seed
