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Topic 5 Farm Mechanization Notes

Farm mechanization involves using agricultural machinery to enhance productivity by replacing manual labor. It encompasses various levels of mechanization and aims to improve yield, product quality, and land productivity while addressing labor shortages and environmental concerns. However, challenges include high costs, worker displacement, and environmental impacts.

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Topic 5 Farm Mechanization Notes

Farm mechanization involves using agricultural machinery to enhance productivity by replacing manual labor. It encompasses various levels of mechanization and aims to improve yield, product quality, and land productivity while addressing labor shortages and environmental concerns. However, challenges include high costs, worker displacement, and environmental impacts.

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Topic 5: Farm Mechanization:

Definition

Mechanised agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to


mechanise the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. In
modern times, powered machinery has replaced many farm jobs formerly carried out
by manual labour or by working animals such as oxen, horses and mules.

Which mechanized machine do you to use in the below


• Preparing land for planting
• Seed drilling, planting
• Weeding, crop spraying
• Harvesting

Levels of mechanization
• Hand/muscle power.
• Hand-tools.
• Powered hand-tools, e.g. electric-controlled.
• Powered tools, single functioned, fixed cycle.
• Powered tools, multi-functioned, program controlled.
• Powered tools, remote-controlled.
• Powered tools, activated by work-piece (e.g.: coin phone)

Objectives, - Why mechanization?

- To make work easy

- To increase the yield

- To increase product quality

- increase land productivity by facilitating timeliness and quality of cultivation;

- support opportunities that relieve the burden of labour shortages and enable
households to withstand shocks better;

- decrease the environmental footprint of agriculture when combined with


adequate conservation agriculture practices; and

- reduce poverty and achieve food security while improving people's livelihoods.

Problems of Mechanization,
• High cost - Machine being expensive
• Displacement of workers.
• Compaction of soil.
• It causes environmental pollution.
• Degradation of landscape.
• Land tenure system.
• Destruction of soil structure.
• Redundancy of farm labour
• Lack of skilled labor to operate the machine on the farm

Sources of power - Generator – Solar – Biogas - Electricity

Machinery and tools. Pangas – Tractors – Combine Harvester – Sprayers –


Cultivators – Rakes – Cotton pickers – Pole erector – Tilters

What is the importance of mechanization?

Sustainable agricultural mechanization can also contribute significantly to the


development of value chains and food systems as

it has the potential to render postharvest, processing and marketing activities


and functions more efficient, effective and environmentally friendly.

• Maintains constant flow (supply chains) of products in market


• Increased yield
• Increases farm Income
• Increases Land productivity
• Effective and environmentally friendly
• Promotes creativity and innovation

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