Question

A farmer with a huge farm should use which of the following equipments to harvest his crops quickly and efficiently?

• A. Winnowing machine
• B. Combine
• C. Sickle
• D. Both winnowing machine & Combine

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Combine

Farmers with small farms harvest their crops manually using tools like a sickle. However, after harvesting, they need to manually undertake threshing and winnowing. On the other hand, farmers with huge farms cannot deploy manual labour for harvesting and threshing as it is more time consuming. Instead, it is more efficient for them to use machines such as a combine. A combine performs the function of both harvester as well as thresher. This saves a lot of time and manual labour.