Harvest season came, the farmers were happy

Rice (Latin: Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important cultivation plants in civilization. Although mainly refers to the type of cultivated plant, rice is also used to refer to several species of the same genus, commonly referred to as wild rice.Rice is thought to have originated from India or Indochina and entered Indonesia brought by an ancestor who migrated from mainland Asia around 1500 BC. [1]

World rice production ranks third of all cereals, after corn and dangandum. However, rice is a major source of carbohydrates for the majority of the world's population.
The process of harvesting or picking of rice that has been old and yellowing. Harvesting is a long-awaited moment for farmers. After a long time cultivating the land, planting seeds, weeding, fertilizing, etc.According to the customs and habits of the people of Jakarta since the first, before harvesting the next day, first determined a good day in the afternoon by the owner of the rice field, marked by circling the whole field to be harvested while carrying a tidal dry petal (petet), burned one end, And offerings of sweet potatoes placed on every corner of the rice field.then determined the boundaries between the rice to be harvested in rollicking and rice hemisphere.

Before picking rice, in the morning held selamatan "invite home".Begins with cooking rice in a bowl of soil, then brought to the fields in the afternoon. Carried also offerings of raw water in the jug, a set of betel nut is: pinang, gambir, whiting and two betel leaves. Do not forget to bring any large baskets and rope made of young bamboo slices to bind

A. How to Harvest

How to harvest rice depends on the tool used thresher.

• Ani-ani is commonly used by farmers to harvest locally resistant rice crops and high-pured rice plants by cutting on the stems.

• How to harvest new superior rice varieties with sickle can be done by cutting the top, cut the middle or cut the bottom depending on how threshing.

• How to harvest by cutting down, generally done when threshing the way slam / digebot or use the pedal thresher.

• Harvest the rice by cutting the top or cut the middle when done thresher using thresher machine.

B. Rice Threshing

Rice threshing is the post-harvest stage of rice after cutting or harvesting. The purpose of this stage is to remove the grains from the grass.At the time of grain threshing there are some things that need to be done namely:

1. Implementation of threshing should be done as soon as possible after harvest.

2. To avoid the number of scattered grains should be used for the base, for the base can be used plastic, woven bamboo or mat.

According to Agus Andoko, 2002, after rice harvested grain should be immediately threshed malainya.Where threshing can be done on the ground or on the home page. This threshing can be done by human labor or by machine tool.rice threshing is one of the post-harvest stages that contributes significantly to the overall yield loss and quality of rice, therefore it is necessary to find an appropriate thresher alternative so that the yield of rice threshing produces good quality grain and small yield loss.

Based on the results of BPS research, the amount of yield loss during threshing is influenced by several factors such as rice varieties, tools or threshing methods and threshing pads,