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Write a note on harvesting?

Harvesting Harvesting is the cutting and gathering of the mature crop
  • Separation of the grains from chaff is called as threshing
  • Grains are harvested manually using a sickle,
  • By using mechanical harvesters or combines.
  • Combines are machines that also do the threshing (beating out the grain from the chaff).
  • Mechanical Harvester Threshing can also be done by a machine called a thresher. In manual harvesting, threshing is done by making oxen or buffaloes trample over the cut crop.

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