Combine harvesters have a very important task in grain crop harvesting. Combine harvesters must fulfil lot of technological requirements regarding the field conditions, crop type, as well as the quality performance and optimal costs. The problem is that it is the main harvesting technology of cereals in the world and it has seasonal character of work, which has to be done in a relatively short ...

Rice is the major staple food of Jharkhand. Jharkhand produces 2.88 million tonnes, in area about 1.59 hectare with average production 1.81 tonne per hectare. Paddy cultivation involves different operations like sowing paddy for seedlings growing, puddling, seedling uprooting & transplanting, weeding, spraying insecticides/pesticides, harvesting and threshing. Among these threshing an important...

A cowpea threshing machine was designed, constructed and evaluated in the Department of Agricultural Bio-Environmental Engineering Technology, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria. The using locally available materials with primary aim reducing drudgery attached to traditional method cowpea. consisted hopper, unit, cleaning outlet a single phase electric motor. based on varied opera...