Technological Aspects of Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds

Description

In today's world, the importance of pulses, cereals and oilseeds tremendously increased. If you are a commercial farmer and agriculture student, you must aware about technologies of these items. Cereals are seeds or grains of grasses and are cultivated to obtain the largest bounty of their fruit or seed which consists of germ, endosperm, and bran, and is also referred to as the caryopsis. Important cereals are wheat, rice and maize. The processing of cereal grains is usually by traditional methods or modern methods. Cereals are basic ingredients of Indian diets, especially, for people with low-income groups, generally live in rural areas. Each type of cereal crop requires a specific harvest treatment. This book “Technological Aspects of Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds” is composed of advance techniques to make and supply of grains, natural products and vegetables. The objective of this book is to organize the scattered information and to deal with the recent development of the processes, operations, designs and other engineering aspects of drying, parboiling, milling and by-products utilization of some common cereal grains and pulses.