Local bodies, research and extension institutions, etc., have been found to have significant roles to play as partners in showing new pathways. Women-led farm mechanisation could be used as a tool for reviving agricultural production systems and for ensuring food and livelihood security. The case...
Farm mechanisation Farm mechanisation is gaining traction, supported by state governments corresponding to Punjab, which has launched schemes like Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM), providing subsidies for buying agricultural equipment. Small land-holding farmers discover farm gear costly and ...
The draconian national lockdown, which for weeks prevented migrant workers from returning to their villages from cities, added another incentive to accelerate mechanisation. Farmers in India often regard buying a Mahindra tractor as akin to having a child: both become part of their lives and ...
Mahindra is currently working on providing affordable tractors and crop specific mechanisation solutions like rice transplanters, harvesters for paddy, cereal harvesters, and potato planters, developed specifically for the African market. About Mahindra Farm Equipment Sector Mahindra is In...
mechanisation of agriculture throughout the 20th century led to a change in the structure of labour migration. The need for short-term labour increased due to rural depopulation in smallholder petty commodity production, which is the major form of production in Turkey. This accelerated with the ...
Under the Mahindra Brand, the company offers tractors in the 15-120 hp that are globally known for their strength, fuel efficiency and reliability. Mahindra is the market leader in the world’s largest tractor market, India. In...
2020a), it currently faces a variety of other threats to its survival in the wild [e.g., expanding agricultural mechanisation, pesticide use (Toudonou, 2015) and local subsistence use (Auliya and Schmitz 2010)], and detailed studies on population status and distribution are currently lacking ...
An extensive body of evidence in the field of agro-ecology claims to show the positive effects that maintenance of ecosystem services can have on meeting future food demand by making farms more sustainable, productive and resilient, which then contribute
Pakistan’s agriculture productivity uses inorganic fertiliser, pesticides, and mechanisation that cause greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions [14]. The agriculture contribution to the country’s GHG emission is about 44%, which is more than agriculture’s contribution to the country’s GDP [13]. ...
The second category is the use of mechanisation by farmers, in which two indicators were used: (1) the total input of mechanised services purchased in different production stages of each crop, including ploughing, sowing, spraying, fertilising, irrigation, harvesting, and other production processes...