The relevance of animal power for land cultivation in upland areas: A case study in East Java, Indonesia

Cornelissen, A.M.G.; Ifar, S.; Udo, H.M.J.

doi:10.1016/s0308-521x(96)00078-9

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“…Among these crop cultivation practices, land preparation (tillage operations) is the most important activity and is generally completed by human labor and/or animal traction in developing countries. Draft animals play an important role in agricultural land preparation, particularly tillage operations [27]. Nevertheless, among smallholder farmers in South Asia, there is a decreasing trend of keeping draft animals due to low livestock productivity, lack of sufficient feed, high costs of rearing livestock, lack of sufficient grazing and pasture land, decreasing farm size, and labor scarcity [28].…”

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Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for scale-appropriate farm mechanization: Evidence from the mid-hills of Nepal

Paudel¹,

Kc²,

Rahut

et al. 2019

Technology in Society

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This paper analyzes smallholder farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) for the purchase of scale-appropriate farm mechanization in the hill ecologies of Nepal using the case of mini-tiller technology: a small, 5–7 horsepower two-wheel tractor primarily used for agricultural land preparation. Using primary survey data from 628 randomly-selected households, we find that farm size, local wage rates, out-migration, access to credit services, and associations with agricultural cooperatives positively influence the WTP for mini-tillers while the number of draft animals owned negatively influence the WTP for mini-tillers. On average, farmers were willing to pay 31% less than the actual price of a mini-tiller. Results also exhibited a heterogeneous demand in which the lowest quartile farm size households, typically the poorest farm households, were willing to pay 26% less for the mini-tiller than the top quartile of farms. In the context of labor scarcity and rising rural wages, agricultural policy on farm mechanization in Nepal should aim to prioritize small farms through robust service provision models in order to increase the level of farm mechanization in the country.

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