Educating Smallholder Farmers about affordable Farm Mechanization Solutions
Smallholder farmers are fundamental to the agricultural sector in Asia; they produce the vast majority of food in these regions but are still facing poverty in large numbers. They are more vulnerable to climate change and market trends because of their limited capacity to invest inadequate equipment. Providing affordable and appropriate machinery for these farmers can improve working and livelihood conditions and provide solutions to the vast challenges that hamper agricultural production.
Smallholder farmers are fundamental to the agricultural sector in Asia; they produce the vast majority of food in these regions but are still facing poverty in large numbers. They are more vulnerable to climate change and market trends because of their limited capacity to invest inadequate equipment. Providing affordable and appropriate machinery for these farmers can improve working and livelihood conditions and provide solutions to the vast challenges that hamper agricultural production.
Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization Solutions
New technologies such as self-driving tractors, precision input applications, agricultural drones, and mobile applications for hiring machinery have shown the potential to transform the agricultural mechanization sector into an agent for change. By making machinery more available, precise, and efficient, new technologies provide farmers the means to respond to a larger scope of issues that are hampering agricultural production nowadays, as well as giving them direct access to markets.,
Inclusive Approaches for Improved and Sustainable Farming Practices
The burning of straw residue to clear fields for the next crop is a key concern for air quality and human health in the region. the collaboration between farmers and their cooperatives with local policy agencies and experts to improve current practices according to the farmers’ needs, safeguard air quality while improving crop production, enhancing rural livelihoods, and contributing to rural revitalization.
Agricultural Mechanization in Support of Women and Elderly Workers in Agriculture
Demographic changes in the region, rapid shifts in the labor market and rural to urban migration are contributing to a larger proportion of women and elderly workers in agriculture. Promoting access to mechanization solutions can improve their productivity, income, and working conditions for them.
