Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=54124#.VO2K3SzQrzE Author(s) Adepoju B. Fashina 1 , Aminu Saleh 2 , Fatai B. Akande 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Agricultural Engineering, LadokeAkintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria . 2 National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, Ilorin, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Groundnuts marketed from farms are generally referred to as groundnuts in-shell. When freshly harvested, they may contain some dirt, vines and other foreign materials. Grades of these stocks are established based on intended use. Groundnut producers and commercial buyers use the grade as guidelines for trading. Grading aims at raising the quality and value of the product. Grading is generally limited to measurement of physical properties, such as, size distributions of the pods and percentage by weight of shelled kernels in the undecorticated groundnuts and percentage by we...
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