Importance and Uses of Combine Harvester

Combine
Harvester

Uses and Importance

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Harvesting is a process of
gathering ripe produce from the
farms. Reaping and cutting of
grain or pulses from harvest, used
to typically done by a scythe,
sickle, or reaper in traditional
farming. The process was time
taking and sometimes days of
hard work was needed to be done
by farmers. Even today, generally
on smaller farms with least
mechanization, harvesting is still
the most laborious and intensive
activity in the growing season.

Sometimes the ripen harvest have
the risk of damaging by the bad
weather conditions. And due to
the unavailability of a harvesting
machine, it can be a big loss for a
farmer in bad weather conditions.
On bigger or large farms that are
mechanized properly, the
harvesting process utilizes the
most expensive and latest farm
machinery, called combine
harvester.

Process of
Harvesting done by a
combine harvester
includes multiple
activities performed
step by step such as
—

01 Cutting

02 Hauling

moving the
cut crop to
the threshing
location

Threshing that is
separating the paddy
grain from the rest of
the cut crops: cleaning
or removing unripe,
empty and non-grain
materials.

Combine harvester
also lets the crop in
the field exposed to
the sun for drying,
storing the harvested
crop in stacks or piles.

The machine is specially
used for the crops to collect
seeds or edible part placed
at the top of the grains and
discarding or leaving
behine inedible or chaff part
in the field. A combine is
used for crops like Paddy,
oats, wheat, barley, rye,
corn, sorghum, sunflower,
linseed, canola and
soybean.

Things A farmer should check before using the
combine harvester in the field:

Field condition
Crop condition
Moisture content
Height of crop cutting

Combine Harvester Manufacturing
companies in India

Tafe
Mahindra
John Deere
Force Motors
Fieldking
Sonalika International
Swaraj
Eicher Motors
Standard

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