Rajay Deep
Bathinda
Setting a bench mark in facilitating the growers of white gold in Malwa region, Punjab government has set up the country’s first cotton pre-cleaning plant in the cotton yard at Malout of Muktsar district.
The plant is expected to give farmers a value added service of getting their cotton crop cleaned, before putting it up for sale, thereby getting better returns for their produce.
The unit would provide this facility to farmers at minimal cost, as learnt. While the machinery itself is worth Rs 1.17 crore, it also has various other equipment, including some related to power supply, which did cost Rs 50 lakh more.
The Market Committee has started it on experimental basis and very soon it would be thrown open to the farmers. With a capacity of cleaning 6 tonnes of cotton per hour, the machinery would weed out leaves etc from the cotton crop and would lessen the moisture content as per requirement thereby improving the quality of cotton fibre, as informed.
The unit has total six machines that would clean the cotton serial wise one-after-another. The isrt segment is named Seed Cotton Dispensing system wherein the cotton picked from fields would be put in. Thereafter the crop would go in hot air generation unit to adjust the moisture content of crop as per need using the hot air gushes. The cleaned crop would then be inserted into machine named vertical floor dryer which would allow the cotton crop to fall off gradually from the machine and lower its moisture content.
The cotton would then go to inclined cleaner where other inert matter is cleared and sends it further to super III stick machine separating the lint from dry leaves and other parts of plant. At last the produce would go into the impact cleaner wherein 12 rollers installed would produce finer crop. Here using two blowers the produce would be brought outside from the machine.
Speaking about the machine, Muktsar Deputy Commissioner Jaskiran Singh said the clean cotton would positively create a win-win situation for the cotton industry as well as farmers.
Meanwhile, Market Committee Malout Chairman Basant Singh Kang, District Mandi Officer Kulbir Singh Matta, Market Committee Malout Secretary Ajaypal Singh jointly claimed that the cotton growers would be immensely benefited due to this plant
Bathinda
Setting a bench mark in facilitating the growers of white gold in Malwa region, Punjab government has set up the country’s first cotton pre-cleaning plant in the cotton yard at Malout of Muktsar district.
The plant is expected to give farmers a value added service of getting their cotton crop cleaned, before putting it up for sale, thereby getting better returns for their produce.
The unit would provide this facility to farmers at minimal cost, as learnt. While the machinery itself is worth Rs 1.17 crore, it also has various other equipment, including some related to power supply, which did cost Rs 50 lakh more.
The Market Committee has started it on experimental basis and very soon it would be thrown open to the farmers. With a capacity of cleaning 6 tonnes of cotton per hour, the machinery would weed out leaves etc from the cotton crop and would lessen the moisture content as per requirement thereby improving the quality of cotton fibre, as informed.
The unit has total six machines that would clean the cotton serial wise one-after-another. The isrt segment is named Seed Cotton Dispensing system wherein the cotton picked from fields would be put in. Thereafter the crop would go in hot air generation unit to adjust the moisture content of crop as per need using the hot air gushes. The cleaned crop would then be inserted into machine named vertical floor dryer which would allow the cotton crop to fall off gradually from the machine and lower its moisture content.
The cotton would then go to inclined cleaner where other inert matter is cleared and sends it further to super III stick machine separating the lint from dry leaves and other parts of plant. At last the produce would go into the impact cleaner wherein 12 rollers installed would produce finer crop. Here using two blowers the produce would be brought outside from the machine.
Speaking about the machine, Muktsar Deputy Commissioner Jaskiran Singh said the clean cotton would positively create a win-win situation for the cotton industry as well as farmers.
Meanwhile, Market Committee Malout Chairman Basant Singh Kang, District Mandi Officer Kulbir Singh Matta, Market Committee Malout Secretary Ajaypal Singh jointly claimed that the cotton growers would be immensely benefited due to this plant
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