To provide a crop harvesting apparatus having a first photographing means for taking pictures of the crops and a second photographing means taking pictures of the crops from another direction than the first photographing means which crops are kept by a harvesting means reaping and keeping the crops, wherein accuracy of classification and judgement is improved in classification of the crops in harvesting.

The crop harvesting apparatus comprises a first photographing means 50 taking pictures of the crops, a harvesting means A reaping, holding and transferring the crops, a second photographing means 53 taking pictures of the crops from another direction than the first photographing means 50, which crops are held by the harvesting means A, wherein the crops are classified based on the photographing result by the first and second photographing means 50 and 53.