This paper assesses the sustainability of the current supply network for mechanization, given government policy …. Stylized models of mechanization supply are developed based on experience in Bangladesh, China, and India during similar stages … and mechanization can broaden its role in agricultural transformation. …

Though input vouchers are being publicized as a mechanism to simultaneously target subsidies and develop demand in …, exist on the effect of targeted subsidies on private input demand in Nigeria or West Africa . Consequently this study begins …

Use of agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa has returned strongly to the development agenda … providing aid in the form of farm support and agricultural subsidies. In Ghana, for example, the country of study in this paper …, the government has since 2007 introduced four major subsidy and support programs on fertilizer, mechanization, block farms …

Mechanization is a key to agricultural productivity growth in developing countries. Farm implements, ranging from hand … farm implements by Nigerian farmers affected their investment in other farm implements under a project that provided … increased farmers' investment in the same implements but reduced their investment in other, potentially complementary …

supply of profitable varieties, and mechanization of land preparation) might have created a productive environment that the … private sector could enter and fill in the market for credit, processing, mechanization of harvesting, and other institutional …