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The variety of chilli used for testing the chilli seed extractor coupled with grader was Jayanti. The physical characteristics of chilli are shown in Table 1.2. The bulk density of chillies was 0.074 gm/cm3. Weight of 1000 chillies was 656.20 g. The husk content, seed content and pedencle content was 57.85, 35.09 and 7.06 per cent. The moisture content was 9.00 per cent and colour was dark red. The test results of the chilli seed extractor coupled to seed grader using chillies of variety Jayanti provided by Highway Block of Dr. P.D.K.V., Akola are shown in Table 1.3. The sample size was 100 kg chilli fruits and replicated five times. The total seed coming from both the seed outlet was 39.94 per cent. Husk from husk outlet was 60.03 per cent though which 032 per cent seed loss was observed. The material collected from cyclone was 4.43 per cent through which the seed loss was observed to be 0.15 per cent. Out of the total seed falling on the grader unit (sieve unit) the upper sieve separated the oversize material such as pedencle, husk pieces, etc. to the tune of 3.20 per cent in which very low seed content was observed to the tune of 0.072 per cent. The lower sieve separated 88.63 per cent seed in which the husk content was 1.98 per cent and broken pedencles were 0.45 per cent.