Disconnect
Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …
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
Nut reaper
Speedy destruction
The use of heavy tractors leads to reduced crop production
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, …