Performance Evaluation of Reaper-Binder for Wheat

In Ethiopia, harvesting cereal crops is one of the major attentive agricultural operations in agriculture production, which demands a considerable amount labor. There are significant issues with labor costs and availability during harvest wheat crops. Therefore, it crucial to use mechanical technologies assure timely reduce field losses order increase farm productivity. The objective this study was evaluate self-propelled reaper-binder performance farmer's field. reaper binder's effective capacity determined be 0.108 hectares per hour, efficiency 84.65 percent an operating speed 2.55 km hour. Fuel consumption 10.66 l/ha recorded. Total grain binder were 2.02% compared 3.30% manual harvesting. Harvesting by cost 1,391.18 Birr hectare 2850 hectare, respectively. Compared sickle, lowered 48.82 percent. more feasible economical than terms time, money, . Keywords: Harvesting, Mechanical harvesting, Reaper binder, Wheat DOI: 10.7176/ISDE/12-6-01 Publication date: October 31 st 2022