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| Harvesting rice involves harvesting, threshing, cleaning and bagging. With the all in one harvester, it does all this at the same time. |
The Department of Agriculture (DA) in the Cordillera showcased a locally-designed and manufactured state-of-the- art rice harvester which combines harvesting, threshing, cleaning, and bagging in one operation to help farmers in harvesting their produce.
According to DA regional executive director Marilyn Sta. Catalina, the rice harvester was specifically built to help aid in harvest which lack labor force and thresher facility. It also minimizes time and energy and allows harvesting even during night time.
The unit can work on field, having a capacity of 1-1.5 hectares per day with an estimate of 18-20 bags of palay per day. With that, it consumes a maximum of 14 horsepower gasoline engine, Sta. Catalina said.
To operate the machine, it requires three persons as main operators from driving to bagging of the threshed palay. One person drives the engine while two persons assist in bagging at the back, she explained.
Its traction has a pair of lugged rubber tires with metal lugs suitable to freely run in the field. Thus, it fits in small paddy fields whether it is dry or wet season harvesting, she said.
A numnber of farmers who witnessed how the machine works in the field appreciated the speed of the machine to perform three tasks at one time and they made some recommendations to improve further the performance and be suitable in the ricefields, Sta. Catalina added. - (PIA / by by Joseph B Zambrano)
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