Development of Locally Fabricated Honey Extracting Machine

An indigenous honey extracting machine was designed, fabricated and evaluated at the workshop of department Agricultural Technology, Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Nigeria using locally available materials. It has extraction unit, presser, collector frame. The harvested honeycomb is placed inside cylindrical unit with perforated holes. press plate then positioned on while hydraulic 3 ton it supported by which manually operated forces oil out chamber through holes into lowest part chamber. an average throughput 2.59 kg/min efficiency about 91%. cost producing NGN 31, 700: 00, thirty-one thousand, seven hundred naira only or $70 452.8 to a dollar. This affordable beekeepers would-be entrepreneurs. easy operate maintained without any complex technical know-how. simple technology solves challenge among our peasant farmers in Nigeria.