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How combine harvester helps farmers?

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Combine Harvester In modern agriculture, the combine harvester is a very useful agricultural tool for harvesting a variety of yields such as wheat, corn, soybeans, oats, rice, etc. The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a wide variety of grains from crops. In 1835, Hiram Moore built and patented the first combine harvester in the United States. According to government figures, 65 percent of the world's population still relies on agriculture. And if we talk about India, 75% of India's population is completely dependent on farming. Scientists invented Combine Harvester machines so that they could make the life of the farmer easier and as the productivity at the farm needed improvement. This machine was named Combine Harvester because it automatically performs the crop work and separates the grain crops in one step, the work of harvesting such as reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing, etc. It can harvest crops...

Combine Harvester

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A combine harvester is the most advance and modern way of collecting rice, sorghum, sunflower or large grains such as corn, soybeans and pulse crops from the field.  As the name suggests "combine" it is a multipurpose machine and complete the job reaping, threshing, and winnowing in a single pass.  If we look into the history of combine machine then it was made by Hiram Moore in 1836 also and re-built and listed the first kind of combine harvester in the United States. This version of the combine machine was pushed through the field with the help of farm horses. In this version of combine machine uses 20 horses to harvest 50 acres of crops.  In 1882, Australian Hugh Victor McKay designed a similar idea and created the first industrial combine harvester called the Sunshine Harvester. But the best variant of combine harvester First self-propelled combine harvester union of the vapour engine was acquired by the George Stockton Berry. And since the Combine harvesters are usin...