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During the process of rice harvesting, certain things should be done before we start bagging our harvest; the process of grain cleaning is very important to improve the quality of the grain we have harvested. This cleaning involves husks, straws and debris from the grain, leaving behind well-matured grains, which is the best market quality of rice grain.
Winnowing involves separating the grain from all this, and there are different traditionally structured ways to go about this, basically using the wind as a tool for this.
The Role of Winnowing in Rice Harvesting
- Ensuring Purity and Quality:
separating the husks, straw, and debris from the grains.
The two distinct ways to go about it is the traditional winnowing using the wind or manual tossing methods
I made use of the two methods at the same time to maximise the overall output to do that I first got a bowl about the size that I could carry then I gradually filled up the bowl with the rice that had been harvested and after placing a bag on the ground that will receive the grains while it is falling I now gently start releasing the grain simultaneously following the wind direction which does the job of separating the grains automatically.
The harsh side of this method
We can't control the wind so it is difficult to tell if the weather will be windy or not, sometimes it favours us and other times it doesn't but the harmattan season which is the period when rice harvesting takes place mostly comes with wind and dust coming from the sub-Saharan regions around the wind increases activity at certain times in the day.
