The medium-sized machine made a loud cracking noise as it gobbled several maize cobs the operator, Douglas Opio, had placed in one of its compartments. It took seconds for the petrol-run machine to ...

Many farmers grow maize but cannot afford the cost of acquiring some of the imported threshing machines because of the cost and such farmers resort to manual means of threshing which results into low ...

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 ...

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 ...