| Compost has the main role of the organic farming in Egypt, its demand rapidly increased. But for the small scale of the orchards small holders it is a problem, many of Egyptian orchards are small farms (<=0.5 ha), suffering from the lack of small size shredders. Wastes particle size has an impact on the compost industry. Therefore the main object of this project was to design and manufacture a shredder, produces uniform raw material proper for making compost in a short time. This is investigation was done in the National Research Centre, Egypt with the cooperation with scientists from Qingdao Agricultural University, China. This prototype shredder could control the thickness of the recycled orchards wastes according to the needs of compost producers... |
