Mechanization of Agriculture
Mechanization of Agriculture
Mechanization of Agriculture
Agriculture
Commenced from Industrial
Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution, in modern
history, [is] the process of change from an
agrarian, handicraft economy to one
dominated by industry and machine
manufacture.
History
2)The gross income per hectare of an average tractor-owned house hold was
63% higher than that of a household using only bullock labour.
5)1/3rd of all reported work injuries relate to agriculture of the estimated 5.5
million serious accidents that occur annually in Indian agriculture, many are
causeby unsafe operation of threshers and using tractors for road transport.
Case study-Africa
• In Africa in the 1960s, '70s and early '80s, large
number of tractors were supplied as gifts from
donors or on advantageous loan terms to
developing countries. These public sector tractor-
hire schemes collapsed
• Reason-chronic mismanagement,
inefficiencies,distorted cost of capital wrt traditional
power
Case study-Thailand
• 1970s, several irrigation schemes were
constructed with World Bank assistance in
drought-prone Northeast Thailand.