Practice Name:

Banana Slicer

Details
Category	Other Agri-Related Practice/Innovation
Crop	Banana
Crop Family	Musaceae
Scientific Name	(Musa paradisica)
Vernacular Name	Kela
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	This slicer consists of a spring-action holder with cylinders.
Details of Innovation	This device created by Joy Augustin has been devised to slice bananas with ease. It contains five cylinders to hold bananas. The banana is sliced with the help of a blade set on a round plate. There is a spring-action holder in the cylinders to keep the banana in the vertical position. To keep the banana firmly in the cylinders, a simple spring load system is employed. There is a mechanism to reduce or enlarge the thickness of the piece in the machine itself. With this machine, 1200 slices can be given out in a minute. The operation is very simple. First of all, the spring load system is raised, and the bananas are inserted into the cylinders. Then the spring load system is released, and the handle of the machine is rotated. As a result, the blade set rotates, and the bananas are sliced.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Joy Augustin
District	Malappuram
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tavanur P.O., Malappuram Pin- 679573
Address	P. O. - Pookayil,Malappuram,Kerala
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Kerala
PIN Code	676107

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Agro Ecological Zone	High lands: Central and south Sahyadris, hot moist, subhumid to humid eco-subregion (19.2) Coastal belt: Konkan, Karnataka and Kerala Coastal Plain, hot humid to perhumid eco-subregion (19.3),West coast plains and ghat region (XII) ,Central Zone (KE-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000071
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/76
State	Kerala
PIN Code	676107