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Abstract
The coconut is a big-hearted tree, a nature's blessing to humankind as it is a well spring of nourishment, refreshment, oilseed, filaments , timbers, wellbeing items and furthermore connected with puzzle and sign in the life of individuals. The coconut processing industries find it difficult to produce quality products on par with the world class manufacturing. An attempt is made in this project work to develop a machine for slicing coconut fruit to improve the efficiency of cutting with less effort and less man power. The survey results revealed that slicing of coconut fruit is done manually and cost of slicing also found to be high. A simple machine was developed and experimented to address the issues in the slicing of coconut fruit through this project. Experimental results show that the 180 coconuts slicing take 30 minutes against 60 minutes during manual slicing. It shows an improvement of 50% and cost saving of Rs.20 per 100 slicing.