THE CASE FOR LIMITED TRACTORIZATION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN A LABOUR-ABUNDANT ECONOMY
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of limited tractorization
in agricultural development on the basis of data collected through a
field survey in the district of Shahabad, Bihar, India which was conducted
during 1973-74 1 . It is believed that in a less developed economy where
labour is abundant and capital is scarce mechanization (specifically
tractorization) in farming would be contrary to the principle of factor
proportion and as such would be wasteful. Even if tractorization proves
more profitable than animal-operated farming it may be socially undesirable
in so far as it leads to displacement and consequent underutilization of
human labour. The study attempts to examine how far this actually happens
and also the possibility of counter-acting the displacement of human
labour by an appropriate combination of tractor operations with manual
operations on the basis of custom-arrangement.