Redesign of Drumstick Plucker


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Creator/Artist: Akshay N. Hargude

Category: Product Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2013-2015

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. G. G. Ray, Prof. B. K. Chakravarthy & Prof. P. Kumaresan


Detailed Description

India is the largest producer of the Moringa tree's pod, referred to as drumsticks, in the world. Unfortunately, there are not any dedicated drumstick plucking tools available on the market. Farmers are using self-made tools made from locally available materials. These tools are not efficient enough to pluck only mature drumsticks out of a bunch. Sometimes, the entire branch of drumsticks gets damaged and breaks along with immature pods, causing loss.

Also, there are some other related problems, such as the collection of plucked pods, their market value, and the transportation and storage of pluckers, apart from issues like affordability, physical accessibility, etc. With this project, all these problems in the drumstick plucking activity are solved, and it is now a more efficient, quick, and easy task.


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