Question

Name the machine which does the cutting of standing crops and recovers the grain too.

Answer 1

The machine which does cutting of standing crops and recover a grain too is COMBINE.

Harvesting is the process of cutting and gathering Grain and other food crops.

Harvesting involves mainly 3 activities :
Cutting, threshing and winnowing


•Cutting of crop in small fields is done by the hand using a sickle.
Cutting of crops in larger fields is done by mechanical harvesters.


•Threshing is the process of separating the grains from the harvested cut plants. Earlier threshing was done with the help of animals. Nowadays a machine called thresher is used for this purpose.It also separates the grain from the chaff.


•A motorized machine called combine performs both the activities - cutting of plants and threshing. This machine is used on large fields called farms.

•Winnowing is the process of separating The Grain from the chaff.