Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa : La mecanisation agricole et l'evolution des systemes agraires en Afrique subsaharienne (French)

The slow pace of agricultural mechanization in Africa has long been a puzzle. This book begins to solve the puzzle by looking at the conditions in sub-Saharan Africa that have led to only sporadic use of the plow rather than the hand hoe, very limited use of tractors and even oxen, and the failure of many projects seeking to move directly from hand hoes to tractors. The authors interviewed farmers at fifty sites in ten countries. They found that the...
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Bigot, Yves; Binswanger,Hans P.; Pingali,Prabhu.

Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa : La mecanisation agricole et l'evolution des systemes agraires en Afrique subsaharienne (French). A World Bank publication Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/150201468204563437

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