05-11-2014, 09:55 AM
Abstracts: In this study, crop cutter was designed and for harvesting four Indian rice varieties, two varieties of high yielding named Basmati and Daheradun. Results indicated that compared to local rice varieties Maximum power consumption of about 1.5 kW was obtained for Basmati variety. Results also showed that rice losses of the portable reaper were lower than manual harvesting and field capacity of machine was 4.20 times greater than manual harvesting