Harvest Incentive
Fall is harvest season for many of our favorite foods! What is harvesting? Harvesting is the process of gathering ripe crops, or animals and fish, to eat. While not all crops are ready for harvest in the fall, apples, winter squashes like pumpkins and acorn squash, and potatoes are!
Harvesting
Harvesting is the method of collecting a ripe crop from the fields. It is carried out as soon as the plant attains average maturity concerning the useful requirement of seed, rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, stems, leaves, stalk or others with minimum losses.
- Depending on the position of good grains in plants, harvesting is carried out with different strategies
- The term harvesting also generally includes the immediate post-harvest practices such as threshing and winnowing.
- Threshing is the methodology of loosening the grains from the chaff after the crops are harvested. It can be done by hand or by using a machine to segregate all the grain seeds.
- Winnowing is the methodology of segregation of grain seeds from the chaff using the help of the wind. Due to the wind, the lighter husks flies away, and the heavier grains fall.
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Why Is Proper Harvest Important? The goal of good harvesting is to maximize crop yield and minimize any crop losses and quality deterioration. Harvesting can be done manually, using hands or knifes and it can be done mechanically with the use of rippers, combine harvesters or other machines.
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Food crops, such as fruit and vegetables, are harvested for human consumption. Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world's most popular food crops. Food crops were the first crops to be harvested through agriculture.
As a verb, to harvest something means that you pick or gather it. You might harvest your sweet corn late in the summer. As a noun, harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered.