Performance Assessment of a Locally Made Maize Sheller Machine – A Short Review

Abstract

Maize shelling is a critical post-harvest operation, and the exercise has impacts on the quality of the grain, the magnitude of the workforce, and the overall output. However, the manual procedure is time-consuming and inefficient, and this has led to the design and development of locally made automatic maize sheller machines. The brief review highlights the design and performance analysis on the efficiency, shelling rate, breakage, and energy requirement of the existing research on the design of the maize shellers.