But, for some crops like maize, the tedious task of manually shelling the cobs can quickly dilute that joy, especially for small scale farmers who cannot afford a tractor-powered shelling machine.

Traditionally, maize is shelled manually using hands, either using your thumb to get the seeds off the cobs or rubbing the cobs against one another. This however takes a lot of time and requires ...

Hisar: Indian Patent office has granted design patent to pedal operated maize shelling machine developed at Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU). Vice-chancellor B R ...

Shelling corns off the cob manually ... He says production has since improved since he bought the machines. "The maize thresher is a useful tool to both small-scale and large-scale farmers.

He said that apart from renting the maize Sheller, he also hired 10 labourers to operate the machine. Onimago, who planted maize on 15 hectares of land, disclosed that he initially projected three ...