Mini Sweet Corn Harvesting Machine Specification

The government has targeted self-sufficiency in maize with a total production reached 25 million tons per year. This is also supported by the statement of the Minister of Agriculture on numerous occasions that in 2017 the United States will stop the import of maize. The target is not easy, but it can be achieved by increasing productivity and harvest and post-harvest handling right.

Many of the steps being taken at the time of harvest and post-harvest, from harvesting, stripping, drying, threshing, storage, and transport. Of all the process stages of threshing the highest chance of loss of yield reached 8%, so the process is regarded as a critical process in post-harvest handling.

Mini Sweet Corn Harvesting Machine Specification

So far, most people in the harvest still do it the manual way, so it takes a long time and labor is not small, making it difficult to meet the needs of the increasingly high. To overcome these problems, it is necessary to do the engineering development tools and Agricultural Engineering (Agricultural Machinery) is a corn harvesting machine prototype that could well make the process of threshing.

Agricultural Engineering Research Center for Agricultural Research Agency has done a corn harvester machine development activities through a process of reverse engineering of rice harvester machine. The engine was changed at the main parts that affect the performance of the machine, which is adapted to the characteristics of the corn crop. This machine has been launched by the Minister of Agriculture.

Reapers multi commodity IAARD development can be used to harvest corn and rice, defoliation, cleaning and put to bag in one process. Machines with blinds wheel (crawler) of the rubber can be used for land rather wet and dry land.

Engine driven by 43 HP diesel engine, also equipped with a series of cutting knives, directors, thresher and sieve that can be set to eroded the corn and rice. Machine used to harvest corn, steering parts (header) form a triangle. To the thresher, the distance between the teeth with concave paddle of 2.5 - 3 cm, part of the first sieve perforated plate diameter of 15 mm and a second sieve diameter of 12 mm.

To be used to harvest rice, steering parts (header) the engine is replaced by a pentagon shape, the distance between the threshing sections with concave paddle changed to 1-1.5 cm and converted into a sieve size of 10 mm, to sieve the first and second sieve with wire ram size of 12 x 12 mm.

Engine multi-commodity has dimensions (L x W x H) 4,350 x 2,270 x 2,280 mm, with a weight of 2.150 kg, all the biomass that is cut is fed to the engine (whole feeding), the operator riding on top of the machine's operation harvest and steering the machine, working width 160 cm 3 line cutting corn. The working capacity by using multi-commodity machines to harvest the corn reached 4 - 7 hours, according to soil conditions, moisture content of corn harvested and operator skill. The level of yield loss (shrinkage result) of less than 3%.

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