Himalayan Hi-tech Nurseries

Description

Threshing is still a big problem for most of the farmers in the hilly region. It is a process to detach and clean the grains from the ear heads of crop plants. Grain threshing can either be done mechanically or by traditional methods. The traditional process of threshing crops like wheat, paddy, millet, etc., is done by hand, in which bunches of crop panicles are beaten against a hard element like a wooden log, plank, bamboo table, stone, etc. This process involves lots of drudgeries, waste of time and losses. Therefore, a unique multi-crop thresher has been developed and tested for threshing, separating and cleaning various crops. Keeping in view the difficulties of post-harvest operation, mainly the threshing of crops grown in mid/high hills where the movement of heavy machinery is impossible. ICAR-CIAE Bhopal and ICAR-VPKAS Almora jointly designed and developed this ICAR-CIAE-VL Lightweight Multi-Crop Thresher, which is quite moderate in size and weight.