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With ever-growing population, the food grain production will increase to meet the demand of people.Therefore, quality maintenance of the food grain is the primary concern. India produces over 200 million tonnes of foodgrains annually. There is need of post production management system to match with the increasing production rate.Drying is the primary need of crop's post production system. Many food preservation techniques like cold storage, dryingetc., have been evolved out over the years to tackle the storage loss. Hence, sustainable methods for food preservationare the need of an hour. Solar drying is one of the best choices in this context. Comparative study of wheat between afabricated solar dryer and conventional drying was made in the present study. It has been done to evaluate the qualitycharacterisation of the sample (wheat) to select appropriate drying method. Temperature of the sample both in solardryer and conventional dryer with respect to time were tested at regular intervals. Humidity of the air was also recorded.Proximate principles such as moisture content, protein, fat, carbohydrate and energy of wheat were analysed for bothsun dried and natural dried samples.

L.Vijayalakshmi, R.MeenaDevi, R.Subadevi, M.Sivakumar, “FABRICATION AND COMPARISON OF WHEAT DRYING IN SOLAR DRYER AND NATURAL DRYER”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 19, pp. -, January 2018.