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Agricultural workers use thresher to thresh wheat in Najafgarh. Farmers of Najafgarh are working in the fields to earn their bread and butter in the unforgiving summer heat of the capital , with day temperature is touching 40 degrees Celsius. Next to rice, wheat is the most important food-grain of India and is the staple food of millions of Indians, particularly in the northern and north-western parts of the country. Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. It is the step in grain preparation after harvesting and before winnowing, which separates the loosened chaff from the grain. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. Threshing is just one process in getting cereals to the grinding
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