Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh: The case of tractors for land preparation

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dc.creatorAhmed, Mansur
dc.creatorTakeshima, Hiroyuki
dc.date2020-11-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:13Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:37:33Z
dc.descriptionIn Bangladesh, mechanization—particularly tractor use for land preparation—has grown, despite the country’s having one of the smallest average farm sizes in the region and a historically large rural labor force. The early period of this growth, up to the mid-2000s, was led by technological factors that significantly raised the demand for intensive farm power for land preparation. Economic transformation, including rising real wages, played a greater role in the expansion of mechanization following the mid-2000s. Recently, mechanization has become increasingly associated with growth of nonfarm income-earning activities, and household survey data show that it is increasingly substituted for labor. A considerable part of the growth of tractor use for land preparation during the last three decades has been led by the private sector, whereas the government has engaged in relatively few direct interventions in mechanization. These patterns of mechanization growth in Bangladesh have important implications for other countries that have yet to go through this process.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142868
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109820
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293823
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAhmed, Mansur and Takeshima, Hiroyuki. 2020. Evolution of agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh: The case of tractors for land preparation. In An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?, eds. Xinshen Diao, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and Xiaobo Zhang. Part Three: Late-Adopter Asian Countries, Chapter 7, Pp. 235-261. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293809_07.
dc.subjecttractors
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectsupply balance
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectequipment
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectdemand
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectagricultural mechanization
dc.subjectmechanization
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.titleEvolution of agricultural mechanization in Bangladesh: The case of tractors for land preparation
dc.typeBook Chapter

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