During last three decades Sh. M.S. Virdi author of the book conducted nearly 200 training and demo programmes in rural and tribal areas and has already introduced several technologies in Central India. It may be mentioned that R&D Institutions of the country have developed a large number of Rural Technologies. In this book effort has been made to select some sustainable technologies developed by various laboratories and Institutes of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, well known NGOs and others as its is difficult to incorporate all the technologies. It covers wide spectrum of technologies and processes for implementation in rural and tribal areas, such as: building materials and components for low cost durable housing, agricultural implements for higher productivity and efficiency; food and agro based industries for value addition of agri produce, medicinal and aromatic plants to fulfil needs of pharmaceutical industries, utilisation of Minor forest produce to offer 100-150 days employment in rural and tribal areas, rural energy for eradication of drudgery, purification of drinking water to save rural population from water borne diseases, Rain water harvesting to conserve water, Tissue culture, low cost nursery, employment generating technologies, etc. Apart from brief details, techno-economics and sources of technologies have also been given. The book will be of immense use to Panchayat and Rural Development Departments, District Industries Centres, NGOs, Management and Entrepreneurship development Institutes, CARAPT and others engaged in employment generation activities.
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- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Building Materials and Components
- Micro-concrete Roofing (MCR) Tiles
- Water and Fire Proof Mud Walls and Thatch
- Red Mud/Rice Husk Cement
- Fly Ash Bricks
- Ferro-cement Water Tanks and Other Products
- Stone Masonry Cement Blocks
- Stabilised mud blocks
- Precast stone Masonry Blocks
- Preservation of mud walls
- 2. Agricultural Implements
- Naveen Sickle
- Animal Drawn Digger
- Grubber Weeder
- Self Propelled Reaper
- Seed Drill
- Improved Bakhar
- Manual Rice Transplanter
- Multi Crop Thresher
- 3. Food Processing
- Fruit and Vegetables Preservation
- Soya Milk
- Edible Soyabean Flour
- Leaf Cups and Plates
- Vinegar
- Energy Food
- Iodised Salt
- Drying and Powdering of Red Chillies
- Dehydration of Fruits and Vegetables
- Sunflower Seeds
- Potato Chips
- Papad
- Simple Wheat Milling Process for Bakery Flour (Maida) and Atta
- Mini Rice Mill
- Mini Dall Mill
- Modified Oil Expeller
- Mushroom Cultivation
- Papain from Papaya
- Sugar Cane Juice
- 4. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
- Medicinal Plants
- Aromatic Plants
- Manufacturing Process of Juice, Gel and Powder of Aloe Vera
- 5. Rural Energy
- Cultivation of Jatropha curcus and Production of Biodiesel
- Low Cost Briquetted Fuel
- Solar Energy
- Flat Plate Solar Collector
- Solar Cookers
- Solar Oven
- Solar Drier
- Multi-fuel Cook Stoves
- Purification of Water by Solar Energy
- Biomass Gasifier
- Wind Power
- Solar Photovoltaic Cell System
- Biogas Plant
- 6. Minor Forest Produce or Non-Timber Forest Produce
- Industrial Uses of Medicinal, Aromatic and Other Economic Plants
- Custard Apple
- Palmarosa, Tulsi (Ocimum)
- Harra, Bahera and Aonla
- Chironji
- Bhilawa (Seme-carpus)
- Jamun
- Honey Collection and Processing
- Lac Processing
- 7. Purification of Drinking Water
- Slow Sand Filtration Unit
- Iron Removal
- Iron Removal Plant Connected to Hand Pump
- Chlorine Tablets
- Pot Chlorination of Wells
- Solar Still
- Fluoride Removal
- 8. Rain Water Harvesting
- Availability of Rain Water through Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting
- Rain Water Harvesting through Percolation Tank
- Recharging of Dug-wells
- Rain Water Harvesting through Check Dams/Cement Plugs/Nala Bunds
- 9. Biofertilisers
- Vermicompost
- Utilisation of Fly Ash for Wasteland Development and Agriculture
- 10. Tissue Culture
- Low-Cost Tissue Culture Lab: Success Story of IHBT, Palampur
- 11. Low Cost Nursery
- 12. Employment Generating Technologies
- Detergent Powder and Cake
- Carcass Utilisation
- Queen Pottery Kiln (Manufacture of Pottery ware)
- Cattle Feed/Poultry Feed
- Neem Phenyl: A Herbal Product
- Indigo Blue-Dye
- Cattle Lick Salt
- Japanese Quail Breeding
- Rabbit Farming
- Poultry Farming
- Spirulina
- Village Bakery
- Improved Jaggery (Gur) Making
- Handmade Paper Making
- Modernisation of Bamboo Based Industries
- The Process for Bamboo Mat Making
- Fish Culture
- Agarbatti Manufacturing
- Instant Soil pH Meter (Developed by CSIO Chandigarh)
- Some Post Harvest Technologies Developed by CIPHET
- Sisal (Agave sislana)
- Vegetable Tanning of Leathers
- Appendix
- Some Food Processing Machinery Manufacturers
- Index
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