Animal Traction in Africa
Title | Animal Traction in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Munzinger |
Publisher | Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Technische Zusammenarbeit |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
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Animal Traction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title | Animal Traction in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Animal traction |
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Some organizations concerned with animal traction research and development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title | Some organizations concerned with animal traction research and development in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Starkey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1985 |
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Meeting the Challenges of Animal Traction
Title | Meeting the Challenges of Animal Traction PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Starkey |
Publisher | Resource Book of the Animal Tr |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Nature |
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This new resource book provides a wealth of ideas and experiences concerning animal traction in many countries. This publication has been developed from the ATNESA workshop held in Kenya on 'meeting the challenges of animal traction' and draws together key papers and contributions from professionals in 27 different countries. The papers address a number of important challenges to animal traction that relate to participation, environment, gender, extension, transport, equipment and animal husbandry. In addition, several papers describe national-level challenges and project attempts to address these. It will be of great value to all those concerned with the development of animal power, tropical agricultural development and rural transport, especially those involved in participative research, training, extension, development, planning, gender issues and project implementation.
Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title | Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Prabhu L. Pingali |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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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 pace of mechanization has been slow in Africa because it often is not cost effective. Among the issues discussed in the book are : (a) the effect on yields of substituting plows for hoes; (b) the cost-effectiveness of using draft animals as opposed to tractors; (c) conditions under which tractors can be used more efficiently than oxen; and (d) the negative consequences of government interventions to encourage the use of tractors beyond what is economically justified.
Agricultural Mechanization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Title | Agricultural Mechanization in Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Karim Houmy |
Publisher | Integrated Crop Management |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The manual work carried out by farmers and their families is often both arduous and time consuming and in many countries this is a major constraint to increasing agricultural production. Such day-to-day drudgery is a major contributoring factor in the migration of people, particularly the young, from the rural countryside to seek the prospect of a better life in the towns and cities. Farm production can be substantially increased through the use of mechanical technologies which both are labor-saving and directly increase yields and production. This document provides guidelines on the development and formulation of an agricultural mechanization strategy and forms part of FAO's approach on sustainable production intensification.
Integration of Animal Traction Into the Farming Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
Title | Integration of Animal Traction Into the Farming Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Mwape Dickson Mumbi |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Animal traction |
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