From field to bowl

A threshing machine removes the husks from harvested rice. (Learn more)

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Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the husks must be removed either in large stone or wood mortars with pestles wielded by farmers, or by the kind of mechanical threshing machine seen here. Such machines generally are powered by kerosene or other fuel, and they may be owned communally by a village.

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Definitions

threshing n.
The process of mechanically separating the husk from the edible portion of a grain.

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