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Harvest and Postharvest

Equipment
Harvesting
Rice Reapers
Reciprocating cutter-bar reaper
• Shearing action
• Less power required
• Difficult to manufacture
• Expensive to maintain

Reciprocating cutter-bar reaper

Rotary disc reaper

• Combined impact & shearing
• More power required
• Easier to manufacture
• Cheaper to maintain

Rotary disc reaper

Riding Reaper- Vietnam

Riding reaper - Vietnam

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 Axial-flow Rice Threshers

Axial-flow Rice Thresher

• 500 kg/h – 2 t/h, 2-8 persons

• Throw-in; 5 – 16 hp gas. engine
• Peg-tooth drum; 600-1000 rpm
• 0.1-2.0% grain losses

Axial-flow Rice Thresher

Stripper-gatherer

• Harvest grains/panicles with plant still intact

• 0.7–1 ha/day, 7–10 persons
• Less handling cost and losses
• Ability to harvest semi-lodged crop
• Maximum 2.0% grain losses
• With separate re-thresher/cleaner
Stripper-gatherer

Stripper-gatherer mechanism Stripper-gatherer

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 PhilRice-B&S Mini-combine
• 1-2 ha/day
• 16 hp gasoline engine
• Throw-in type
• With cleaner
• P400,000

Harvested and threshed palay, using PhilRice-

B&S Mini-combine

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Seed Cleaning

Mechanized Seed Cleaning Method

Manually operated (“Hungkuyan)

IRRI Grain cleaner

750-1000 kg/h

0.75-hp motor / 3hp gasoline engine

99% purity

PhilRice hybrid/inbred rice seed cleaner

1000 kg/h

6 hp gasoline engine or ¾ hp electric
motor

99% purity (inbred)

98% purity

P65,000

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Drying
Mechanized Drying Method
(heated air-drying)

Flat-bed dryer

Stationary, batch-type

Forced convection – axial-flow fan

2-3 tons/batch

30-35 cm depth of bed

2% pts. MC difference

4-10 h drying time

40-50°C air temp.

Kerosene, diesel or rice hull fuel

PhilRice Maligaya flatbed dryer

4 t/batch, 6 t/batch

35-40 cm depth

1-1.5 % pts. MC difference

4-8 h drying time

40-50°C air temp.

Rice hull fuel

P550,000 including shed

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Circulating batch dryer

Forced convection – centrifugal fan

4-10 t/batch

6-10 h drying time

40-80°C air temp.

Kerosene or diesel burner

P600,000-800,000

PRPC grain dryer

6 t/batch

6-10 h drying time

40-80°C air temp.

Diesel burner (5L/h)

P450,000 – 500,000

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