In Khuzestan Province over 60,000 ha of land are under sugarcane plantations. Considering 20% of the total product as leaves and tops the weight of these residues was estimated one million metric tons in 2006. In most countries of the world suitable for sugarcane production such as Brazil, India and even Iran, these residues are burned that contribute to environmental pollution and cause organic material loss. These residues could be used as livestock feed stuff or as biofuel energy required in sugarcane industry. Existence of these residues on land is an obstacle for irrigation and makes other problems. Regarding to high mass and physical properties of these residues machines used for harvesting these residues has not shown suitable performance. Therefore, a different pick-up head was designed and developed to harvest residues from the soil surface in an active mode. This head consists of two metal rollers. After various parts were designed based on mechanical engineering design practices and considering proper safety factor and standard parts, machine was developed. Fabrication of the head was done at the Farm Machinery Department workshop and was evaluated on stationary test rig equipped with a channel similar to furrow of sugar cane fields for field simulation. With test rig belt in motion, residues were traveling toward pick-up rollers and with rollers reverse rotation were picked up from test rig belt. To vary material travel on the belt and also rotational speed of the rollers, two electronic invertors Keywords: Sugarcane residues; sugarcane leaves and to residues harvesting; residues burning.
