Cleaning and
grading are the first and most important post harvest operatino
undertaken to remove foreign and undesirable material from the senna/pods
and to separate the stem into various fraction. These great factors
depend upon pharmaceuticals company(Prime number 1,2,3,4 and 5).
We also have machinery for cleaning of leaves as follows
:
Winnower: By this method using powerful fans the
same effect is created that of the winnowing in the fields by which
the foreign matters are removed from the leaves which enter into
the stock at the collection and leaves picking stage. The pre-cleaned
leaves along with stems of equal weight are also then fed into the
graders.
Grader: There
are different graders which grades the leaves as per the size
specified and by which method even pods are separated. The thick
and thin stems are also separated.
The leaves are fed again into the winnowers if required and completely
pure leaves attained by removing even tiny stems as per customer's
specification which are bagged or pressed as bales and stitched
ready for export from our plant.