Present status and future trend in the utilisation of buffaloes and two-wheel tractors in the Northeast
1994
Bunyavejchewin, P. | Saengdit, S. | Kaewsomprasong, K. | Chantalakhana, C. (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand))
This study was made at two villages in Surin province in the Northeast of Thailand to investigate the socio-economic status and the proportion of farmers using two-wheel tractors and buffaloes for land preparation. In the first village, 35.8 percent of farmers used buffaloes while the rest depended on two-wheel tractors or two-wheel tractors plus buffaloes. In the second village, 48.7 percent of farmers relied on buffaloes. The number of two-wheel tractors in these villages increased about eight fold from 1987 to 1992. Farmers' decisions to own two-wheel tractors were based on the convenience of utilization and maintenance, lack of farm labours, lack of communal grazing lands for buffaloes and off-farm income.
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