Agricultural mechanization: adoption patterns and economic impact

By P. Pingali. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

Impact of Ghana's Agricultural Mechanization Services Center Program (2015, unknown): “(2013) study, the authors compare their indicators of interest across the two groups (users of AMSEC services and users of non-AMSEC services) without verifying the comparability of the groups in terms of, for example, household labor and farming experience, which are known to affect demand for mech”
Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward (2014, background): “Reduced prices due to higher food supplies are thought to particularly help the poor, because they spend relatively more of their income on food (Pingali 2007).”
The effects of land markets on resource allocation and agricultural productivity (2017, background): “Land preparation lends itself to the adoption of capital as a substitute for labor since it is power intensive but not control intensive (Pingali, 2007).”
The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar (2021, background): “The economic literature frames the process of mechanization as induced innovation that occurs when labor scarcity drives up rural labor costs (Binswanger, 1986; Hayami and Ruttan, 1971; Liu et al. 2020; Pingali, 2007; Rigg, 1998).”
Economic Factors Affecting Diversified Farming Systems (2013, background): “Key Words: agriculture; diversified farming systems; economics”
Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture (2017, background): “While recognizing the important role of mechanization in various steps of agricultural production, Pingali (2007, 2790) holds a similarly pessimistic view on rice harvesting mechanization in Southeast Asian countries: “In the absence of land consolidation and the re-design of the rice land to form…”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “Where population densities are low and contract enforcement weak, the necessary rental markets may not emerge (Pingali 2007).”
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, background): “Malawi numbers are virtually identical, despite the huge time variation, which may signal that tractor use in Malawi has stagnated, as hypothesized about SSA more generally (Pingali 2007).”