Review of traditional tillage tools, practices and improvement: efforts in Ethiopia
1998
Mengistu Geza | Zelalem Bekele (Nazret Research Center (Ethiopia))
More than 90 percent of the total agricultural produce comes from the peasant farmers who cultivate 95 percent of the cropland. The tillage tools and practices are indigenous and are chosen by the farmers themselves based on their resources and requirements. However, these indigenous tools and practices pose constraints to production such as inefficiency, drudgery and poorquality of work, which result in lower yields. Efforts have been made to improve tools and implements used by the farmers. Design, development and introduction of improved implement have been carried out. Farmer's acceptance of the technology was minimal. Reasons for this failure could be the economic status of individual farmers, the problem of local manufacture, repair and maintenance, skill requirement and single-purpose use of the improved implements. Therefore in an effort to solve problems related to these traditional equipment and techniques, through design, development and introduction of new equipment, factors that could be possible reasons for failure should be given the consideration.
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