NRDC Technology offer-PAPAD MAKING MACHINE

PLANT PARAMETERS
Capacity	30 Tonnes/ Annum
No. of shifts / day	1
Working days / Yr	300
Land Reqd., m2	25
Covered Area, m2	20
MANPOWER
Managerial	1
Skilled	2
Unskilled	3
UTILITIES
Power, KwH	5
Raw water, KL	500 litres/ day
PLANT & MACHINERY
Papad Press	3
Dough making Machine	1

Papads form a popular food adjunct in Indian dietary. It is a thin wafer-like product, circular in shape, rolled from dough made out of pulse flour, with or without added spices. Though traditionally confined to the household, papad making in recent years has developed into cottage scale and small-scale industry

Product:

Papad press can be fabricated in a small fabricating unit

Preparation of papad by a custom built machine.

Application:

Fabrication of papad press.

Papad as food adjunct.

Raw material :

Urd dal, any pulse flour, salt, farinaceous material, spice mix.

Market :

Papad production is in unorganized sector. About 95% of papad produced in the country are made in the household or cottage scale. Papads are exported to more than 40 countries from India. The major importing countries are UK USA, UAE, Singapore, Oman, Nigeria, Malaysia, Kuwait, Canada, Bahrain and Australia.

Process:

The papad press is manually operated, simple and easy to operate machine that can make around 500 papads/hr. The papad dough is made from pulse flour (preferably urad dal), slat, carbonates, farinaceous material and water.

The contents are kneaded into semi-tough dough. The dough is made into balls of 5-6 and pressed into 1-mm thickness using papad press. The pressed circular shaped papad is dried to 14-15% moisture level.

Equipment and gadgets:

Custom built papad press.

Nature of enterprise:

Home/cottage scale

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