In Bihar threshing of paddy is generally done by women farmers and manual threshing causes high drudgery and time consuming operation. So to address this issue, a rapid assessment study was conducted. So it is very necessary to adopt women friendly technologies such as open drum thresher which reduced drudgery of women farmers during threshing and solved problems such as labour, time and cost. Here the women farmers can increase their source of income by using this machine for custom hiring to other farmers. This improved open drum thresher is designed with more safety concern and the threshing efficiency is around 5-6 qtl per hour. | Piloting of improved open drum threshers in Bihar
