Dehusking and shelling are important post-harvest activities in maize crop, predominantly done by women. These activities involve a lot of drudgery as these are done manually. Though hand operated ...

Though maize cultivation is increasing every year in the district, farmers had to face serious problems to thresh them. After getting maize threshing machine, they are very happy this year as it will ...

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 ...

SINCE TIME immemorial, agricultural technologies aimed at relieving farmers from labour constraints in food production processes have not favoured smallholder or subsistence farmers, especially in the ...

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 ...

Kampala — MAIZE is traditionally shelled by hitting it with sticks. Though the method is productive, it results in grain damage and contamination with foreign matter reducing the shelf life and ...