Forages such as straw, corn stalks, sugar taps, and napier grass, are generally used for livestock production, fish culture and compost. The forage grass is being used to feed to the animals directly, as they are collected from the farms or chopped into pieces for easy intake by the animals. The current practice by the small and medium scale livestock farmers to collect and cut the crop residues using machetes and other crude methods is very cumbersome. 

 

Forage Cutter  technology was developed to chop crop residues like maize stovers, millet stovers, sorghum stovers, rice straws, gamba grass and elephant grass in wet and dry conditions with an average chopping rate  of 158.2 kg/hr. The average length of cut of materials is 3 inch that makes it suitable for the preparation of animal feeds with the chop grass as major components and minerals, proteins and vitamins as constituents.

 

This technology is easy to operate and maintain. It requires only one person to operate and can be used both in the rural or urban areas and it only requires  a gasoline engine with 9 hp power rating and above.