This invention relates with the development of a multi multi millet thresher-cum-dehuller for the purpose of threshing and dehulling of Barnyard, proso, foxtail, kodo, finger and little millets by scientists of Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE), Bhopal. Millets are important food crops for a large section of people in rural, tribal and hilly areas. These crops are mainly grown in harsh environments (rainfed and temperature more than 20 oc) where other crop yields are very poor are less prone to disease and pests. The epidemiological evidences indicate that person on millet based diets have good resistance for degenerative diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension etc. Apart from health benefits, millets are also good sources of energy, protein, vitamins and minerals. The utilization of millet for food is mostly confined to the traditional consumers and population of lower socio economic strata. The major reason of these is probably lack of appropriate technologies such as threshing, dehulling etc. therefore, development of thresher and dehuller suited for the all millets is essential to promote utilization of these millets in India. The traditional threshing of millets is done either by sticks or treading out the crop panicle under the feet of oxen. These two operations are most time consuming, laborious and uneconomical for hill farmers. Mostly women farmers are involved in these operations. The traditional methods of threshing often results in low output and poor quality products. The mechanized threshing of millets can reduce the drudgery of farmers particularly of women farmers. In order to reduce drudgery, increase production and improve quality of the produce, the farmers required a low cost, light weight machine, which can be able to perform both operations i.e. threshing and dehulling of almost ail millet crops. Keeping these points in view, scientists of CIAE has developed a multi millet thresher-cum-dehuller which is suited
