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Harvest Management
Harvesting Activities
Manual harvesting
• Sickle (16 mandays/ha)
Manual harvesting
Mechanical harvesting
2 to 2.5 ha/day with 2 laborers
depends on terrain, plot size and shape, and field and plant conditions
depends on 3 M (man, machine, material)
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Threshing
Cleaning
Impurities lowers grain standards, thus lowers its value
Impurities contributes to grain deterioration
Can be done thru manual (winnowing) or
mechanical (blowers, sieves, screens) means
Cleaning by winnowing
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