Indian agriculture is dominated by smallholders. With an average holding size of just 1.08 hectares (ha) (in 2015-16), and 86 percent of holdings being of less than 2 ha in size, Indian agriculture transformed the country from functioning 'ship-to-mouth' during the mid-1960s to being a net...

Das Ziel der Studie ist die Prognose der Entwicklungen auf dem Agrartechnikmarkt für Deutschland und Westeuropa. Als Prognoseverfahren diente die Delphi-Methode, eine mehrstufige Expertenbefragung mit Rückkopplung. Als zentrale Untersuchungsbereiche umfasst die Studie zum einen die Ermittlung...

Since 2007, the government of Ghana has been providing subsidized agricultural machines to private enterprises established as Agricultural Mechanization Services Enterprise Centers (AMSEC) to scale up tractor-hire services to smallholder farmers. Although farmer's demand for mechanization has...

Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development. Except for places in the forest zone where stumps are still an issue in fields, tractors used for plowing and maize shelling have been widely adopted even among small farmers....