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Post Harvesting

Postharvesting:

The harvested earheads are heaped over gunny bags and again covered on top with one or two layers of gunny bags for 5 to 7 days. This process is known as “curing” which facilitate easy detachment of grains from spikelet. The curved earheads are beaten with wooden logs or trampled below feet or bullock to separate grains. The grains should be dried in sun to bring the moisture content below 12%. Well dried ragi/finger millet can be stored for more than 3 years without much loss in viability.Ear heads are heaped for 3 to 4 days to cure which helps the grain to separate easily from the tight grip of the spikelets. The grains are removed from cured ear heads by hand threshing, bullock threshing or by machine threshing. The grains are winnowed and stored properly.