Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) under their umbrella organisation Agalyawamu Farmers Group have been given a maize threshing machine worth Shs2.5 million. The motor machine was donated by American ...

Though maize cultivation is increasing every year in the district, farmers had to face serious problems to thresh them. After getting maize threshing machine, they are very happy this year as it will ...

The thresher must be kept under rain-proof room after using. Photo by Desire Mbabaali. Shelling corns off the cob manually is both tedious and requires much labour. On the other hand, selling dry ...

Anantnag (J&K), May 09 (ANI): Agriculture Department distributed motorised modern rice, maize thresher machines and tractors to every Panchayat and Block Level in Anantnag, J&K. This initiative was ...

Hisar: Indian Patent office has granted design patent to pedal operated maize shelling machine developed at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU). Vice-chancellor B R Kamboj ...

Maize, one of the world's most important crops, is extensively grown as a food crop. Its importance in food and livestock feed cannot be overemphasised. However, a problem comes during postharvest ...

Ilorin — Youth farmers at the Youth Farm settlement, Oke-Oyi, Kwara State, have decried seasonal food wastages, saying it is caused by the inability to access modern post-harvest equipment to timely ...

The machine is a hand operated maize thresher with a weight of about 15 kilogrammes. With a cup-like hollow opening where the cob is placed to be worked upon, the machine has a wheel that is hand ...