Combine harvester - Benefits and Uses for Farmers

In the modern era, combine harvester is a machine that is used in most countries of the world.  First this machine was introduced in United States, but now the combine harvesters or simply combine is also popular in countries like India, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and even Cambodia for harvesting a paddy rice is increasing rapidly.

For those who don't know what a combine harvester is - A modern combine harvester is a multipurpose machine designed to efficiently harvest a range of grain crops. The term stems from its integrating three independent harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, and winnowing—into one procedure. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers, and canola, etc. are among the crops gathered with a combine.

The primary advantage of a combine harvester is that you can harvest the crop with the help of a machine instead of manual process, and instead of having to it to take to the threshing machine, this machine can also automate the threshing of the crop and clean grains can be easily obtained from the crop. Before the introduction of the machine, farmers had to harvest the crop using stationary threshing machines and move it to a central location where grain was threshed. But now it is not so difficult because with the invention of combine harvester all this work can be done by the machine.

Advantages of using a combine harvester:

1. Combine harvesters reduces grain losses compared to manual harvesting. Manual harvesting involves major crop losses in harvesting and carrying, but all steps are easily accomplished without any grain loss using a Combine Harvester.
2. A combine harvester machine is capable of harvesting and threshing an acre of land in an hour. Where a manual method would require at least 12 people to perform the same task, except for threshing.
3. In the manual method, different steps are taken for threshing, which extends for several days and the crop remains in the field for a long time, which causes the risk of crop damage due to the rain of that time. Thus, the time from harvesting to market preparation is a week or more in the manual method. But for Combine Harvesters, this process prepares the crop to market in a few hours.
4. Combine harvester provides grains of good quality compared to the manual process, for which the market is also willing to pay a better price. Considering the labor cost involved in manual harvesting, the cost of mechanized harvesting is much lower than the cost of manual harvesting.