Wheat

Post-harvest management

Post harvest of wheat

  • Harvested wheat is transported in wheat bundles or sacs to the threshing ground or shade. Wheat is threshed on a plastic sheeting spread on the ground in the field or threshing ground,
  • Wheat is manually threshed using sticks or appropriate threshing machine,
  • After threshing, wheat is winnowed using traditional winnowers. While winnowing, damaged and unfilled grains, stones or other crop grains are removed. A modern winnowing machine can facilitate the work much more,
  • Wheat is dried on a cemented ground or plastic sheeting. Wheat is slowly dried. Avoid very strong sun and very hot plastic sheeting/ drying ground which can burn the grains and, thus, deteriorate their quality. 
  • Grain treatment with insecticide: before storing wheat grains, it is recommended to treat them with insecticide in order to chase away rodents and pests like grain borers and others. Some of the insecticides to be used are: Detia at the rate of 2-3 tablets in a Ton of grains or Skana Super at the rate of 100gr/90 kg of wheat grain.
  • Storage: well dried wheat remains with a moisture content of 13-14%. Once it is winnowed, treated with an appropriate insecticide, wheat is packaged in clean sacs and stored in a ventilated storage. Sacks should be raised off the ground to allow air circulation. It is recommended to use air-tight bags where it is possible. It is recommended to store wheat in a well ventilated store so as to reduce moisture and fight against diseases and pests, to raise the sacs off the ground to allow air circulation and to install rodent traps.
  • Some of wheat products: wheat grains are milled into wheat flour. Wheat grains are also processed into flour by wheat millers like BAKHRESA, PEMBE, GITARE MILLS, AZANIA, etc…
  • Wheat flour is used to make porridge, paste, crepes. Wheat flour based products are bread, donoughts,, cakes, chapattis…. While byproducts are used for animal feeds, construction materials, animal litter, compost, etc..