Threshing of Paddy

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• Threshing is the process of beating paddy plants in order to separate the seeds or grains from the straw.
• Threshing is one of the many tasks a combine harvester performs, along with harvesting the plant and cleaning the grains.
• To maintain the high quality of the harvested grains, it should be threshed immediately after harvesting.
• Avoid field drying and stacking for several days as it affects grain quality due to over drying. Stacked grains of high moisture content results in discoloration or yellowing.
• Threshing can be done manually or mechanically. The manual methods of threshing are treading by feet, flail method, and beating stalks against tubs, boards or racks. Mechanical threshing removes rice grains from the rice plant, speeds up threshing (thus reducing losses), and reduces labor requirements. Although once done by hand using a flail on a threshing floor, this tiring task is now mostly done by machine.