Before the valuable kernel of grain can be used to make bread or other food, it must be separated from the useless outer shell, the chaff. Today, machines in the field or in factories quickly separate ...

A LARGE percentage of the rice crop is lost through improper harvesting and threshing. Harvesting of paddy includes cutting, stacking and handling, threshing, cleaning and hauling. Good harvesting is ...

Mechanisation as a tool for modernisation of agriculture has been well recognised as it generates greater crop intensity and as such improves productivity. It results in considerable saving of fodder ...

Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, special to The Citizen Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

The Research for Development and Innovation Agriculture and Learning (ReDIAL) project has supported over 320 women farmers in Ghana with improved threshing technology. The the-four-year project, which ...