Penggunaan Teknologi Perontokan untuk Menekan Susut dan Mempertahankan Kualitas Gabah
Abstract: Paddy (Oryza sativa)
is a plant producing rice as a staple food of Indonesian people. Efforts to
increase rice production is done not only through the extention of the rice
areas, but also to minimize postharvest losses. This study aims to assess the
use of thresher technology on postharvest losses of paddy. Threshing of paddy
is done by three methods: (1) manually or “gebot”, (2) using pedal threshers,
and (3) using power threshers. The results showed that the use of power
thresher able to reduce paddy losses from 3,31 to 4,35 % (for manual threshing
or gebot) to be 0,49 to 1,21 %. The use of power thresher also reduces the percentage
of grain cracking from 7,1 % to be 4,1 % by threshing manually. Threshing
capacity using power thresher from 708.0 to 773.0 kg/h, while using the pedal
thresher 84.96 to 113.00 kg/h and manual thresher resulting only 54.69 to 62.22
kg/h.
Penulis: Rokhani Hasbullah dan
Riska Indaryani
Kode Jurnal: jppertaniandd090117
