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Magdalena Smith Villaruz (born 1934) is an entrepreneur and inventor from the Philippines.Originally a rice farmer, [1] she went on to help agricultural technology by creating the turtle hand tractor and other inventions.
Where coals are plenty and cheap, steam may be advantageously used for working the machine." Steam-powered machines used belts connected to a traction engine; often both engine and thresher belonged to a contractor who toured the farms of a district. Steam remained a viable commercial option until the early post-WWII years.
An addition that can be built to make a thresher more efficient is to make it pedal-powered. This adds two more parts: A seat for the pedalling operator; Pedals that are attached to the crank with a chain and sprocket. The pedal-powered thresher developed by the Maya Pedal Project provides a good example of a built-in pedal system to a thresher ...
An animal-powered thresher. Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. [1]
IH McCormick 141 self-propelled Harvester-Thresher c. 1954–57, shown in thresher mode, with harvester dismounted For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff ...
Thresher may refer to: Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head: Pedal powered thresher, a low-tech threshing machine that is operated using pedals. Thresher shark, a type of shark with a distinctly scythe-shaped tail
The highlights of its short-lived success happened when the Philippines finally attained self-sufficiency in 1975–1976, and was able to export rice to its neighbors in Asia in 1977–1978. But costly subsidies and failure of many farmers-borrowers to repay the loans led to the program benefiting only 3.7% of the country's small rice farmers ...
Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on November 5, 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies for farmers.