Traditionally, maize is shelled manually using hands, either using your thumb to get the seeds off the cobs or rubbing the cobs against one another. This however takes a lot of time and requires more ...

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 ...

Joseph Macharia, one of Dajopen's co-founders, demonstrates how to use the maize sheller at a past exhibition event. Harvesting is undoubtedly the final joyful step as you reap benefits of hard work.

The maize farmers across the State now have a reason to rejoice as the new ‘maize sheller’, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, (IITBBS) will be available commercially very ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers in the Northern and Upper East Regions have taken delivery of maize shellers and multicrop threshers to boost their farming operation and reduce post-harvest losses. These were supplied by the ...