high performance yzy260 soybean milling machine in zimbabwe

   
high performance yzy260 soybean milling machine in zimbabwe
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
  • high performance yzy260 soybean milling machine in zimbabwe
  • What is soya bean (Glycine max)?
  • Soya bean (Glycine max) is one of the main oil seeds produced in Zimbabwe. However, Soyabean production has faced harvesting challenges especially among the medium scale famers who are poorly mechanised. This group of farmers cannot viably use human labor or buy combine harvesters to accomplish the harvesting operations.
  • Is Zimbabwe a mechanized country?
  • Zimbabwe is at various levels of mechanisation with smallholder farmers still at the early stage of agricultural mechanization. Soya bean harvesting among smallholder farmers has been slow. A significantly higher proportion of soya bean farms are still manually harvested.
  • Who produces soya beans in Zimbabwe?
  • Historically in Zimbabwe, soya bean production was highly mechanized and was primarily carried out by the large commercial farmers in the high rainfall areas of the country. Commercial farmers produced 90 percent of the crop and the small scale farmers produced the remainder (Zimoil, 2011).
  • Can mechanised soya bean harvesting and primary processing reduce labor requirements?
  • This paper proposes mechanisation options fro soya bean harvesting and primary processing (threshing) processes which can be promoted as interventions to reduce labor requirements in soyabean harvesting and improving the viability of mechanised soya bean production in Zimbabwe.