• Aditya Bajoria
• Shantanu Purohit

India, a country with the second most fertile land and a diverse range of agro-climatic regions, is one of the world’s largest producers of wheat, rice, pulses, and many other products. However, India’s well-doing agricultural sector has started to shrink and is infested with massive inefficiencies. To this end, the paper proposes a novel design of a winnowing device that works on solar power that would inevitably increase the efficacy of the winnowing process. This device would make winnowing a lot faster with an efficiency of at least 95% while requiring minimal investment and also falling in line with the move to renewable power. Rural India faces a paucity of electricity while also being gifted with a hefty quantity of sunlight spread over long periods. Owing to this factor, the proposed machine works entirely on solar power and is self-sustainable, tackling the problem of less electricity available by using an abundant resource available to man. Winnowing in India is mainly labour-intensive, and the machines used also require significant investments, making it impossible for struggling farmers to buy it. However, the study aims to solve this issue and provide a solar-powered, self-sustainable,low-cost machine to make situations more hopeful for the farmers in India.

Winnowing; Farming; Chaff; Grain; Solar Energy; Cost-Effective;

"Novel Solar Powered Winnowing Machine Design", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.a652-a660, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109092.pdf

"Novel Solar Powered Winnowing Machine Design", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. ppa652-a660, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109092.pdf