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RICE HARVESTING IN PHILIPPINES BEFORE

Harvesting processes

Reaping - cutting the mature panicles and straw above ground. Threshing - separating the paddy grain from the rest of cut crop. Cleaning - removing immature, unfilled, non-grain materials. Hauling - moving the cut crop to the threshing locations ...


##NEW TECHNOLOGY IN RICE HARVESTING IN PHILIPPINES USING HARVESTER


Therefore, the use of agricultural machinery like a Combine Harvester has grown rapidly. It is becoming quite popular among the farmers due to its technology that combines reaping, threshing, cleaning, and in some instances even bagging, in a single operation.

As per recent surveys it was found that use of Combine Harvesters increased significantly between the year 1996 and 2006. This fully mechanized harvesting equipment has replaced the traditional systems that used to be done by human labor with sickles in harvesting operations in weeks’ time. The key advantage of mechanized harvesting with a combine harvester is that it not only reduces the production costs but also improves labor efficiency.

However, to operate a combine harvester machine, a farmer also needs to be trained. The use of this a modern combine machine also can impact impacts the economic conditions of farmers, as it replaces the labour work. Here we have mentioned the positive impacts or advantage of a Combine Harvesters –

It is very useful where labor scarcity is an issue.

Combine harvester provides cleaner grains by effectively separating weeds from grain.

The farm can be prepared easily in shorter time for the next crop.

Farmers can save the overall cost of harvesting from cutting to winnowing.

It reduces dependency on the human labour.

Saves crops from getting damaged by natural disasters.

Combine harvester being versatile machinery and suitability to harvest multiple types of grains, are high in cost. Thus farmers first should be sure about its usability on his farm. A multi-crop harvester is usually