How to process Areca nut

1. Take young betel nut which aged 25-30 days, then peel, after peeling the betel nut and head on thinly sliced ​​and separated, then after that sliced ​​as thick as a coin or + 2 mm each piece and also can be divided thickly depending the size of betel nut.

2. Drying
After the young areca nut is sliced ​​it should be dried immediately (getting direct sunlight) so it does not mold, drying can be on black plastic, tarpaulin or made a special place. To get a good result of drying under direct sunlight at least 18 hours, with a dry size of broken sticks if broken and ringing when sown (parsed) on a dry pile of betel nut (5-10% moisture content). In accordance with the analysis and my experience the comparison of logs (hardness) to be dry was obtained on average: 10: 1 which means that 10 kg of young areca shells after being processed on average got 1 kg dry.

3. Sort
Sorting or Staining is meant here to separate the sliced ​​young areca from the dried clothesline according to the qualifications of the clothesline. But there are also processors that sell root (without being separated) or sifted first. Before the sorting work, the dried betel nut should be sifted first using a modified 1 cm wire sieve.

4. Packaging After the sliced ​​areca nut is considered dry enough and separated / sorted according to the qualifications of each one, then packing can be done into the sack. When packing betel drought, it must be considered properly, because if it is still not dry and carried out packaging then when inside the sack it will mold because the air in the sack is high or hot. In packing sliced ​​areca nut in a sack, it must be coated with plastic according to the size of the sack (such as packing fertilizer) to avoid the entry of water which can damage the quality of the areca nut. after the packaging is finished, young slices of iris can also be marketed according to demand.