Tractors can change farming in good ways and bad: lessons from four African countries
Insights from 87 villages reveal transformative power of agricultural mechanisation, but there are challenges too — like soil erosion, …
Nut reaper
Speedy destruction
The use of heavy tractors leads to reduced crop production
Bullish turn: The return of the bullock to India’s farms
Post mechanisation, for the first time there is innovation in farm equipment to revive bullocks and aid small farmers
Time to redress
The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?
65 million draught animals
What runs the small farming economy?
Foreign influence
Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad
Disconnect
Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …