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Harvest Management

Cut and thresh the crop at the right time. Harvest/reap

the crop when 1/5 or 20% of the grains at the base of the
panicle are in hard dough stage.

Timely reaping and threshing ensure good grain quality,

high market value, and consumer acceptance.

Reaping too early results in a larger percentage of

immature grains and lower milling recovery. Reaping too
late leads to increased grain shattering and excessive losses
in terms of breakage during milling.

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)

Harvesting using Mini-Combine harvester

Collecting/Piling

Cut plants should be collected and piled right after cutting.

Field drying is not recommended to maintain uniform grain
dryness and minimize losses

Piling fresh or wet grains in straws resulted to yellowing,
fermentation, discoloration
Collected and piled palay

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Threshing

Thresh immediately after reaping

(over-dried or fermented straws resulted to excessive grain loss)

Proper threshing drum speed

Machine in A-1 conditions

Expert operators

Threshing of harvested palay

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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