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Engineers Develop Multi-Crop Thresher for 32 Crops: Threshes 3 Acres/Hour, 50% Subsidy.
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News18•03-10-2026, 20:53
Engineers Develop Multi-Crop Thresher for 32 Crops: Threshes 3 Acres/Hour, 50% Subsidy.
- •Engineers have developed a multi-crop thresher capable of extracting grain from 32 types of crops, including wet ones.
- •This machine can thresh various crops like cumin, carom seeds, paddy, maize, soybean, black gram, green gram, chickpeas, lentils, wheat, peas, mustard, pigeon pea, sesame, and flaxseed by simply adjusting sieves.
- •The multi-crop thresher, with its large horsepower, can efficiently thresh approximately three acres of crop in just 1 hour, saving time, money, and labor.
- •A.P. Kujur, Executive Engineer of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Sagar, states that farmers can avail up to 50% subsidy on agricultural equipment by applying online.
- •A 50% grant is available for the multi-crop thresher; for instance, if it costs 1.5 lakh, SC-ST women farmers or those with less than 2.5 acres can receive a maximum grant of 1,25,000, while farmers with over 5 acres get a 40% subsidy or 1,00,000.
Key Questions Answered
Engineers have developed a multi-crop thresher capable of threshing 32 different types of crops, including wheat, paddy, maize, soybean, and various lentils.
Featuring a large horsepower capacity, the multi-crop machine can efficiently thresh approximately three acres of crop in just one hour.
Farmers with less than two and a half acres of land who are women or belong to SC-ST communities receive a 50% grant up to 125,000, while those with more than five acres receive a 40% subsidy of up to 100,000.
