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 …