Completed project
Trialling dry hulling of raw pistachios to improve pistachio processing (PS13000)
Publication date: February 5, 2019
Delivery Partner: Pistachio Growers Association
The current method of pistachio hulling, wet hulling and drying, is both capital- and processing-cost-intensive, especially as it is only required for a four to six week period each season. Furthermore, the Australian pistachio variety Sirora has uneven maturity and unripe nuts must be separated from the rest with a loss of value to the grower.
This project, which ran from 2014 to 2016, sought to determine the methods and equipment needed to effectively replace or supplement the current wet hulling methods with a dry hulling method.
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This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Pistachio Fund
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