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Study on Optimization of Mapping Method for Multi-Layer Cage Chicken House Environment. [PDF]

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Zhang Z   +7 more
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The Agricultural Mechanization Controversy

Science, 1985
Attorneys of California Rural Legal Assistance are suing the University of California on behalf of 19 farm workers, alleging that publicly funded mechanization research displaces farm workers, eliminates small farmers, hurts consumers, impairs the quality of rural life, and impedes collective bargaining. This article reviews the evidence and finds that
P L, Martin, A L, Olmstead
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Mechanization and Agricultural Technology Evolution, Agricultural Intensification in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Typology of Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013
In sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries like Nigeria, anecdotal evidence indicates that the cost of manual farming activities has been rising, with potential causes including the growing urban sector, as well as rural non-farm economies (Oseni and Winters 2009) which often raises rural farming wages (Reardon et al. 2000).
Hiroyuki Takeshima   +2 more
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Mechanization of Agriculture

MADRAS AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 1949
Dr.V.V.Sayyanna(School of Economics and Sociology,Bombay)read a paper.showing the progress of machanization in agriculture in countries abroad,in most cases up to 1940.In the wheat belt of U.S.A. -almost every farm had one tractor at least,and there were more than one in many cases.
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Mechanizing African Agriculture

2019
Agricultural technologies that reduce the need for intensive manual labour make it possible for farmers to cultivate more land more effectively. This can increase both incomes and total food production, with significant benefits to farming households and communities in food-insecure regions.
Baraké, Evelyn, Kirui, Oliver K.
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Goryachkin’s agricultural mechanics

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2016
The paper contributes to the development of applied mechanics by establishing a new discipline, namely, agricultural mechanics by academician Vasilii Prohorovich Goryachkin (1868–1935) who was an apprentice of Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky and a graduate of the Moscow University (current known as Moscow State University) and the Imperial Higher ...
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Agricultural and Forestry Mechanization

2011
Wood biomass for energy production, used by 50% of the world’s population, represents an important alternative to other non-renewable energy sources even in industrialized countries. The correctly planned management of wood biomass production could make it a valid alternative energy solution to traditional fossil fuels, since it is a local and widely ...
Lucia Recchia   +5 more
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Mechanization and British Agriculture

1933
Mechanization and British Agriculture...............................................................1XIV. Mechanization and British Agriculture..........................................................3Mechanization and British Agriculture being the Report of a Conference held at Rothamsted on February 9th 1932..5Contents................................
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Mechanization in Agriculture

Abstract The mechanization of American agriculture depended on cumulative knowledge, perceived need, and affordability. Inventors and agricultural engineers built on previous knowledge, farmers had specific technological needs that required mechanized implements, and these machines had to be affordable.
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