0 to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool
1 to remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting, using either a machine or a hand tool
Farmers reported that the need to thresh soybean at the homestead made it a more difficult legume crop to bury.
Also, heaping panicles at a common threshing point for days before threshing may result in the shedding and loss of grains.
The kernel is loosely covered and it can be easily threshed.
The use of threshing machines has always fluctuated in tandem with the ability of farmers to access liquid cash.
Harvesting and threshing are carried out as one activity, mostly on a contract basis, with the contractors receiving 20% of the output.
Spikes rather than seeds were used because some accessions had glumes that adhered tightly and could not be threshed.
Farmers were also asked the length of time they kept panicles in the field before threshing and how they were kept.
Plants were threshed manually when the moisture content in pods reached 12% and assessments of seed yield were attained.
