Design and Fabrication of Solar Operated Thresher Machine

This paper deals with the development of a rice threshing machine. Available evidence suggests that the mode of threshing rice in the rural areas in Nigeria is by traditional use of hand beating of the paddy. This method is time wasting, energy sapping and often the grains are broken. The developed rice thresher has the ability to winnow the premature grains and leaves, which are often lighter, thus, leaving aside the massy grains that, will be collected. It is also capable of reducing time wastage, reduction in breakage of the grains and separation of the stalk from the grains. Thresher is a rice seed threshing tool. Threshing is an integral part of the process in rice post-harvest management, in which the rice that has been harvested is threshed to separate the grains from the rice straw. One of the main problems faced by the farmers, especially during the post-harvest time is the difficulty to carry the thresher to the harvest site since it is inaccessible for four-wheeled vehicles to reach the sites, and thus the further transport is conducted by manpower of at least six people using bamboos to bear the rice. Data gathering method is conducted by separating the parts of the thresher in four categories namely the frames, the feeding parts, the thresher, and the cover, and then data of each production.