Tea Plucker Scissor Type

Function: For plucking tea leaves 

Brief description
While plucking tea leaves skin of fingers and hands get injuries due to chemicals. Using scissor type tea plucker hand/finger contact is avoided thereby eliminating skin problem.
Capacity: 8.6 kg/h

Benefits

• Economic benefit: Rs. 1000/unit/year
• The output is 40 % higher when compared with conventional method of hand picking. 
• Cardiac cost for tea plucking with is less (295 betas/kg of tea leaf) as compared to traditional plucking (580 beats/ kg of tea leaves).
• Results in 32 % saving in cost and 40 % saving in time when compared with conventional hand picking method.

Cost: Rs. 450/-
Developed at: TNAU, Coimbatore
Source of Availability

• Department of Farm Machinery, Agricultural Engineering College & Research
  Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore- 641 003.